Hoops Pool

There is a clear cut line about complete abject failure in the 100 win college basketball hoops pool. That line is 100. If your five teams you picked from last year fail to win their total of last year... you did a terrible job, and should never think about sports betting again. Or at least wagering on college basketball.

Maybe you should bet on the NFL, or try the National Heads Up Poker Championship Brackets. Well, actually if you can't get over 100 wins by the time the season is over you are better off curling into a little ball setting yourself on fire and trying to put it out with a battle axe and by chewing on grenades. Last thing you should do is spend any more of your hard earned money gambling.

It's not hard to do. And lucky for your players nobody was that stupid this year. Right now, everybody has already passed the mark. Newcomer John Price is the lone exception but he's at 99 wins. I'm sure Kentucky, Kansas, St. Johns, Arizona or Harvard will give him a win before the season expires. By the way, John was one of two players to pick an Ivey league team. The other is a league veteran. Psssssst... the Ivey league doesn't have a conference tournament. Hard to make up three missed games.

At the top of the leaderboard it's a bit of six man race. The trio are up a game on myself, Eric Johnson, and Rory O'Brien. I still believe the trio won't be beat.

Let's assess my chances Charlotte can't win a basketball game even if the other team stays home. They are in a free fall and things don't get any easier for them to end the season and in the A10 tournament. Might be my best chance, as one of my opponents mentioned, is for them to be the last team out in the NCAAs and get hot in the N.I.T. and backdoor some wins. Probably won't be enough. The other team having me tear my diminishing hair off my head is the 'Eers of West Virginia.

Please they have as much chance of stringing together a streak of wins as you do finding one of their fans with a full row of front teeth. Don't get me started on Ole Miss. That's what I get for picking a team that is thinking about adding a mascot from a sci-fi movie that is over thirty years old. General Ackbar? How does this happen.

Rory's problem is also West Virginia's consistency. It was in West Virginia that Ifirst heard the "Do you want to see my mouse tatoo," then after an underwear tug down and not tatoo the punchline "I guess my p***y ate it." I've since seen it on one of the reality shows my wife watches and I sometimes pay attention to, Real Housewives of Orange County.

Contrasting the fake bake, silicone injected housewives with what passed for a woman, that hooved creature with the shape of a soft-serve ice cream gone awry, that told me that joke is like comparing West Virginia to a decent team in the pool like Georgetown who could actually beat anybody that's decent (course Georgetown can lay some stinkers too).

Eric Johnson has Ole Miss, did I mention general Ackbar.

The best pick so far in terms of win/losses is Charlotte which is already plus 8 from last year. Georgia Tech is plus 6. Oregon is plus 4 and so is Kentucky and Harvard. The worst picks are Arizona -8, Mississippi State -3.

Also, five of you have yet to pay me. Ship the chedder boys.