Play against Jeff in Sweet Lew’s Bracket

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Play against Jeff in Sweet Lew’s Bracket 

News March 18 2025

What goes better with a Spring Tour than the greatest Spring Tournament?! Play against Jeff and like-minded PJ fans in this year’s collegiate basketball bracket challenge.

To play, save your predictions in Sweet Lew’s Bracket and follow along the men’s official game schedule.

SVRDhand13

I signed up before looking at Jeff's picks.  I also have Florida over Duke! But we have very little overlap in the rest of the Elite Eight. 

marumaruko

This isn't hockey, right? 

drakeheuer14

First game, first loss! March is always fun

Spartanacus

I didn’t see his name in the standings. 

runstaples

Thanks, Clemson. Ugh.

Spartanacus

Spartanacus said:

I didn’t see his name in the standings. 

Nevermind…I see him now - “J A”…232nd out of 314 cuz of that Montana pick. 😛

runstaples

His heart was in the right place. I did the same with my Wolfpack last year and it actually worked out, haha

I am a patriot

Playing with your heart doesn't always work out. Happens to me every year. Want to see the Cinderella's go all the way and rarely ever happens.

gotthebottle

At last minute I changed my Drake pic... outthinking again

SVRDhand13

Spartanacus said:

Spartanacus said:

I didn’t see his name in the standings. 

Nevermind…I see him now - “J A”…232nd out of 314 cuz of that Montana pick. 😛

I'm in 242nd place lol

This is the first year I filled out a bracket blindly without doing any research.  Whoops!

julieooliern

SVRDhand13 said:

Spartanacus said:

Spartanacus said:

I didn’t see his name in the standings. 

Nevermind…I see him now - “J A”…232nd out of 314 cuz of that Montana pick. 😛

I'm in 242nd place lol

This is the first year I filled out a bracket blindly without doing any research.  Whoops!

I’m in second to last place in my bracket 

Loujoe

I really don't follow sports and have a tiny idea how this goes. Keep picking the winner of each game til the end?

SVRDhand13

Loujoe said:

I really don't follow sports and have a tiny idea how this goes. Keep picking the winner of each game til the end?

Yes but you pick at the outset of the tournament instead of re-picking every round.  Each round is assigned a higher point value than the previous round, most points at the end wins.  

BF25394

SVRDhand13 said:

Spartanacus said:

Spartanacus said:

I didn’t see his name in the standings. 

Nevermind…I see him now - “J A”…232nd out of 314 cuz of that Montana pick. 😛

I'm in 242nd place lol

This is the first year I filled out a bracket blindly without doing any research.  Whoops!

Like it makes any difference. People who've never seen a basketball game in their lives have as good a chance at making the "right" picks as Jay Bilas or Seth Davis, as long as they understand what seeds represent. It's a crapshoot.

It's amazing how much of the popularity of this event is a function of people trying to predict its outcome. In a theoretical world where "brackets" were outlawed, the interest level in the tournament would drop by at least half.

SVRDhand13

BF25394 said:

SVRDhand13 said:

Spartanacus said:

Spartanacus said:

I didn’t see his name in the standings. 

Nevermind…I see him now - “J A”…232nd out of 314 cuz of that Montana pick. 😛

I'm in 242nd place lol

This is the first year I filled out a bracket blindly without doing any research.  Whoops!

Like it makes any difference. People who've never seen a basketball game in their lives have as good a chance at making the "right" picks as Jay Bilas or Seth Davis, as long as they understand what seeds represent. It's a crapshoot.

It's amazing how much of the popularity of this event is a function of people trying to predict its outcome. In a theoretical world where "brackets" were outlawed, the interest level in the tournament would drop by at least half.

I've found that the years I've followed the sport I've done a lot better.  In college I joined the newspaper contest and got 8th place out of like a thousand people.  My friend got 9th place and I never let him live it down lol.  

BF25394

SVRDhand13 said:

BF25394 said:

SVRDhand13 said:

Spartanacus said:

Spartanacus said:

I didn’t see his name in the standings. 

Nevermind…I see him now - “J A”…232nd out of 314 cuz of that Montana pick. 😛

I'm in 242nd place lol

This is the first year I filled out a bracket blindly without doing any research.  Whoops!

Like it makes any difference. People who've never seen a basketball game in their lives have as good a chance at making the "right" picks as Jay Bilas or Seth Davis, as long as they understand what seeds represent. It's a crapshoot.

It's amazing how much of the popularity of this event is a function of people trying to predict its outcome. In a theoretical world where "brackets" were outlawed, the interest level in the tournament would drop by at least half.

I've found that the years I've followed the sport I've done a lot better.  In college I joined the newspaper contest and got 8th place out of like a thousand people.  My friend got 9th place and I never let him live it down lol.  

I just remember someone who typically did really well in an office pool thinking that Ohio State is known as "Ohio."

In fairness, even people who follow the sport for a living don't really have a ton of expertise. There are over 300 teams that have a shot at the tournament as of ten days before the selections are announced. I love when you hear some talking head on ESPN or on sports radio confidently opine on High Point's or McNeese's chance. Not only have they almost certainly never seen either of those teams play, the truth is that a lot of them haven't even seen Florida or Michigan State play.

I would tune in eagerly for an end-of-tournament wrapup show that audited the experts' predictions after the fact. There would be some embarrassing soundbites. It cracked me up that the two most prominent "Bracketology" experts missed three teams each from the final field. You might look at that and say, "Hey, 65 out of 68 is not too bad." But 32 of the teams are automatic qualifiers, and another 28 were such locks that all 111 prognosticators tracked on the Bracket Matrix website had them in the field. So, basically, these guys (Joe Lunardi and Jerry Palm), who spend the entire year parsing the teams' resumes, missed three out of the eight spots that were actually in doubt.

BF25394

Here's something fun. Seth Davis's first-round picks were 23-9. If you just picked the better seeds, you'd be 25-7. Davis was also 0-2 on the First Four games that he picked. (He doesn't appear to have picked the two 16-vs.-16 games.)

Jay Bilas was also a subpar 23-9. That put him in the 47th percentile of ESPN.com's Tournament Challenge, behind over 13.2 million other entries.

Our boy Jeff A. made par at 25-7. 

Kudos to Dick Vitale, who managed to beat the "control" bracket by going 26-6.

gotthebottle

My Illini dominate!!!