Ryan stayed up late Selection Sunday to fill out his nifty excel sheet to send out for his family tournament. Then for FHE we had the kids do their picks. It's always a hard thing to figure out how exactly kids this young can do their own picks. So here's how it went:
Kevin:
Balls, then blocks, then back to balls. Balls: 2 balls, yellow as high, green was low. Each time his grabbed or released it counted as a high or low. Then with the blocks, number blocks was low and alphabet blocks were high same grab/release. Kevin ran out of steam towards the end (hence the switch back to balls). But all in all he was pretty fast. He has Florida picked to win.
Say their name then say the jersey color. We found that when Ryan just told her two names, she always choose whatever team he said last. When we switched to colors (Ryan would say the team's jersey color) she mixed it up more. She was a big fan of Orange. Her chosen champion is Lehigh.
I did my picks by choosing the team with the better record, unless it was close and I
(a) owned or thought I owned some type of clothing from a team,
(b) had heard Ryan talk about the team a lot, or
(c) remembered the team's name from previous years and thought they were good back then
The exception to this was BYU. Since they've choked almost every year, I figured why even give them one game. Yeah, I know, I am soooo strategic. Truth be told I know the least about college basketball this year in comparison to any other year (since meeting Ryan). I did initially have Syracuse picked to win, but was told a star player wouldn't be playing so instead I have North Carolina winning it all.
Ryan:
As usual his picks had more thought put in. What teams are doing well? How many upsets are normal for each ranking level? What is the fan base like? He knows way more about college basketball than anyone should (yet somehow always manages to lose the family bracket). This year he has Michigan State as his champion.
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