Amidst all the excitement of MSU’s tournament run, I haven’t been posting updates on our NCAA Tournament contest. Here are the final standings, courtesy of the incomparable SpartanDan: 1. Seer 151 2. DP99 137 3. Alex 122 4. Mark in Chicago 113 5. Chris 112 (tiebreaker: 74 possessions) 6. rook34 112 (68) 7. SpartanDan 110 [...]
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The last DVD goes out the door
Posted in contest on April 9, 2009 | Comments Off
Pick your 16
Posted in contest, tagged ncaa tournament on March 16, 2009 | 32 Comments »
First: Congratulations to Zack for winning the BTT bracket contest. Zack was one of two entrants to correctly name Purdue as the champion (Chris was the other). Send me your mailing address and I’ll mail you your DVD, Sir. Also, thanks to SpartanDan for serving as official score keeper. I have one more DVD to [...]
The Second Annual and World’s Only (As Far As We Know) Big Ten Tournament Bracket Contest
Posted in contest, tagged big ten tournament on March 9, 2009 | 40 Comments »
The BTT bracket is now set. Why wait to make predictions about a bunch of teams you know almost nothing about (Robert Morris? Stephen F. Austin? Binghamton?) when you can make predictions right now about the 11 teams you’ve been watching nonstop for the past 10 weeks? Same rules as last year: To submit an [...]
Passing on the freebies
Posted in contest on February 21, 2009 | 40 Comments »
Running this blog hasn’t done a lot for my pocketbook. But it has created some small perks–like getting a few freebies in the mail. A couple weeks ago, I received several copies of the new DVD, The Greatest Stories of Michigan State Basketball (affiliate link), which is being released in conjunction with the 30th anniversary [...]
And the winner is . . .
Posted in contest, links, tagged mat ishbia on October 23, 2008 | 5 Comments »
. . . Nick, whose Mat Ishbia Day story captured the hearts of Spartans Weblog readers everywhere (after first capturing the heart of Mrs. Spartans Weblog). Nick’s “Best Day as a Spartan Story” took home 19 of the 43 votes cast by readers. Congratulations to Nick on winning a free copy of College Basketball Prospectus [...]
The best of the best days as a Spartan
Posted in contest on October 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Thanks to all of you who took the time to share about your best day as a Spartan. It was a fun way to learn a little bit more about each other. Now we get down to brass tacks. There’s a data-saturated tome at stake. Mrs. Spartans Weblog has dutifully made her selections as to [...]
What was your best day as a Spartan?
Posted in contest, reader feedback on October 14, 2008 | 22 Comments »
This blog tends to be built around a lot of numbers and analytical whatnot. But, at the heart of it, I’m just a fan. And, I think, that’s what draws people like us together: a devotion to a cause, be it something as irrational as five guys in green tank tops playing a game against [...]
Step right up and win a t-shirt
Posted in big ten, contest on March 9, 2008 | 30 Comments »
A week from now, we’ll all be poring over NCAA Tournament brackets making prognostications about teams like Davidson, VCU, Drake, Robert Morris, Baylor, and Portland State. Some of these teams we’ve barely heard of, let alone watched this season. So, I thought, why not get the prognostications started a week earlier this year, and make [...]
