This is an ncaa tourney challege of sorts that we compete in here in the stats department. Read the rules and send me your picks... hoblin@gmail.com

16^TH ANNUAL NCAA BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT CONTEST

To: Statistics students, staff, faculty

From: John Boyer

The NCAA basketball tournament begins this coming Thursday. If you are a basketball fan, then a contest is being held to demonstrate your basketball knowledge. If you are not a basketball fan, then a contest is being held to allow you to demonstrate how little the self-proclaimed “basketball fans” know about basketball. The rules are simple, but most importantly IT’S FREE!

CONTEST INSTRUCTIONS

1. Select as many teams as you wish from the following list, but the total cost must be less than or equal to 100. For example, you might pick all the #1 seeds -

2. Write your choices on the accompanying entry form and return it to me or to my mailbox in the Statistics Department office or you can e-mail me your picks. This must be accomplished by 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, March 14^th.

3. Your score for the tournament is the number of games won by the teams you choose.

4. There is a PLAY-IN game. For one point, you may chose the winner of this game. You do not get a point for this team’s play-in victory.

5. PRIZES: $10.00 for 1^st, $5.00 for 2^nd, 25 cents for last. There is NO ENTRY FEE.

6. This contest is open to graduate students, staff, faculty, and former students of the Statistics Department. Each household is allowed two entries.

Seed	Cost	MIDWEST	WEST	EAST	SOUTH
1	25	Florida	Kansas	North Carolina	Ohio State
2	19	Wisconsin	UCLA	Georgetown	Memphis
3	13	Oregon	Pittsburgh	Washington State	Texas A&M
4	12	Maryland	Southern Illinois	Texas	Virginia
5	11	Butler	Virginia Tech	Southern California	Tennessee
6	10	Notre Dame	Duke	Vanderbilt	Louisville
7	8	UNLV	Indiana	Boston College	Nevada
8	5	Arizona	Kentucky	Marquette	Brigham Young
9	5	Purdue	Villanova	Michigan State	Xavier
10	4	Georgia Tech	Gonzaga	Texas Tech	Creighton
11	4	Winthrop	VCU	George Washington	Stanford
12	3	Old Dominion	Illinois	Arkansas	Long Beach
13	2	Davidson	Holy Cross	New Mexico State	Albany
14	2	Miami (O)	Wright State	Oral Roberts	Penn
15	1	Tex A&M CC	Weber State	Belmont	North Texas
16	1	Jackson St.	play-in winner	Eastern Kentucky	Cent Conn. State

This contest was invented by Dr. James Stapleton of Michigan State University in 1986. In recent years, a winning score has typically been 18-20 wins. We (the Statistics Department at KSU) compete annually with the Michigan State department (from which Drs. Boyer and Song received their degrees) for bragging rights.

You can find a complete bracket at a variety of sites in newspapers and online. The tournament runs for three weeks, and concludes with the championship game on Monday, April 2^nd.

This is a departmental tradition – you don’t have to know anything about basketball to participate –otherwise Dr. Boyer would never be allowed in.