High RPI? Try CBI!

Never say die. As if 97 teams in some tournament isn’t enough, along comes the College Basketball Invitational (CBI) which allows 16 more teams (even some under .500) to continue playing well into March. So we have the 64-team NCAA tourney (ok, 65, geez, that’s such an odd number (no pun intended)), a 32-team NIT, and now a 16-team CBI. What’s next? The 8-team Who Cares tourney? Then the 4-team Semi-Good tourney followed by the 2-team Automatic Final tourney and the 1-team We are the Champs tourney?

Meanwhile, at midnight, we have a record 19 entries for a Sunday-Monday timeframe. Six are new entries and seven are online entries (those who found us on the web somehow… and trust us!). I expect the regulars to be hitting the entries around Wednesday morning.

Pouring in…

As of 6 pm Monday, we’ve had a record-breaking 16 entries for a Monday. We need just two more to be ahead of the 2005 pace when we 17 after Sunday & Monday. Every entry seems legit thus far with only two (both veterans – Wendy B. & Chris F.) yet to communicate how to get their fee in. And in a change of pace, five have actually PREPAID (!) their fee (maybe they want to make sure they don’t use it for gas money :-)). We’ve had two people enter three times (the max), which ties a record set last year (usually, just Robinson C. enters 3 picks).

Also, if you are using PayPal and want to do the credit card option, make sure you send the money to smt0222(at)yahoo.com, not hwci(at)hotmail.com. Only the former can accept credit card payments.