NCAA 2024 March Madness Squares Pool
$25 March Madness Squares Pool is back for the 2nd year! Last year seemed to be a success, so i intend to build on that. The basics are: All 63 games starting with the round of 64 will be included. The final score for each game earns a winning square, with prize amounts shown below. Everyone must escrow! The square grid will have winning team across the top, losing team down the side, which is how winning squares for each game will be determined.
I don't have any crypto accounts, so escrow would need to be via paypal, venmo, or cashapp. I can also do zelle if needed.
Payouts would be as follows:
Round of 64: $25 per game
2nd round: $25 per game
3rd round: $50 per game
Elite 8: $75 per game
Final 4: $150 per game
Championship: $300
63 chances to win!
Once all 100 squares are paid for, the board will be randomized with names first, and then numbers. I will randomize names, then send them to a neutral party for verification. Then I would have someone here with no knowledge of the names list randomize 2 sets of numbers. One would be for the winner's side, one for the loser's side. As stated above, each game would be paid based on the final score.
So if the final score of a game is 75 - 70, the square that wins would be winning side 5, losing side 0.
Please feel free to ask any questions you may have. I won't be able to reply back to the thread until tomorrow due to going out of town for the day, but wanted to get it rolling. I will be posting Sweet 16 pools tomorrow afternoon, hoping to get interest in those as well.
Squares list:
Cokeboy99: 4 squares
Notes - Payouts will be the night of the Championship game. I'll post in here after each game with the winning square info. Payouts will all be done after the championship game so as to avoid multiple payouts to the same person. Again, escrow is required and can be done via paypal, cashapp, venmo, or zelle.
When sending escrow payments, make sure you're not using a "pay for goods or services" option that'll charge fees, and DO NOT PUT ANYTHING IN THE NOTES EXCEPT YOUR 2+2 USERNAME!!!
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Oregon wins 87-73, in an upset over South Carolina.
Hopefully this means marknfw is no longer upset over not hitting the earlier square in the Illinois game, as he did hit this square!
Dayton with the come from behind win, 63-60. CowboyCold's sister is no longer behind either - 1 square win has her even and freerolling the remainder of the pool!
Texas wins over Colorado State 56-44. In a game with not many swings in scoring leads, AquaSwing gets the square win!
Hook ‘em
UNC over Wagner 90-62. UNC is the first 1 seed to play, and win; 0-2 is the first winning square of the many for REDeYeS00. This particular square is labeled "REDeYeS00-11 (rv)"
rod & va are the couple that bought them, and they do have a pretty sweet airstream pulled with a 2011 rav4, the v6 with a swinging tailgate
what do they call it again?.....kismet?
happy my ducks could help you out!
0-3 on garbage buzzer beaters that would have hit my square
Unreal
Is it baseball season yet
on the off chance anybody was wondering, Oakland over Kentucky did not upset red spouse
Oakland upsets Kentucky 80-76, which likely isn't upsetting for REDeYeS00, who gets a square for the spouse as the winning square is REDeYeS00-13 (sp).
In the other game that wasn't as exciting, Iowa State beats South Dakota State 82-65, and AzOther1 gets the square win!
What the hell? I expected to have won 4 or 5 times already.
Gonzaga over McNeese State 86-65, a game that was never in doubt for Gonzaga. Altho Tom Ames had doubts about winning, he hit his first square on this game!
Oakland upsets Kentucky 80-76, which likely isn't upsetting for REDeYeS00, who gets a square for the spouse as the winning square is REDeYeS00-13 (sp).
You guys are ruining my bragging about finally being able to interpret REDspeak!
Seems your screenname may have been confused with AzOther.
Or perhaps the answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind.
Gonzaga over McNeese State 86-65, a game that was never in doubt for Gonzaga. Altho Tom Ames had doubts about winning, he hit his first square on this game!
Figures. Two schools that I couldn't place on a map, although Gonzaga still triggers nightmares. I almost feel guilty. Almost. I figure they owe me. And they still owe me.
Blind hogs and acorns. Blind hogs and acorns.
purposefully slowing down my posting now to avoid the uneventual mind meld with ames and cokeboy
cokeboy, loving the running TALLY.
Tennessee crushes St Peters 83-49, and I crush a 2nd square! First repeat winner this year.
Washington State comes back to beat Drake 66-61, and Rawlz517 gets the square win!
NC State upsets Texas Tech 80-67. This is not the first win for an 11 seed today, but it is the first square win for r0llin_game!
Kansas survives an upset scare to avoid a first round exit, winning 93-89. This is not the first, but the third winning square for myself!
Complete results for the day to follow shortly.
Thursday games wrap-up:
Michigan State 69, Mississippi State 51 – ec_outlaw
Duquesne 71, BYU 67 – kevstreet
Creighton 77, Akron 60 – redbuck
Arizona 85, Long Beach State 65 – C Bids
UNC 90, Wagner 62 - REDeYeS00-11 (rv)
Illinois 85, Morehead State 69 – cokeboy99
Oregon 87, South Carolina 73 – marknfw
Dayton 63, Nevada 60 – CC – sister
Texas 56, Colorado State 44 – Aquaswing
Oakland 80, Kentucky 76 – REDeYeS00-13 (sp)
Iowa State 82, South Dakota State 65 – AzOther1
Gonzaga 86, McNeese State 65 – Tom Ames
Tennessee 83, Saint Peter’s 49 – cokeboy99
Washington State 66, Drake 61 – Rawlz517
North Carolina State 80, Texas Tech 67 – r0llin_game
Kansas 93, Samford 89 – cokeboy99
In the other game that wasn't as exciting, Iowa State beats South Dakota State 82-65, and AzOther1 gets the square win!
Maybe exciting isn't the right word, but the arena was Hilton West. It was interesting to be surrounded by the Cyclone fans.
They looked really good. Super quick closing on D, good offense, A very tough out.
Pups, OTOH, lose.