any chance a 16 seed winning a game this year?

[KG]

that's the extent of my interest in the tourney anymore....

[Renew Deal]

1. Nate Silver said there's a 15% chance

Which he considered very high

"Speaking of those No. 1 seeds, there is a higher-than-normal chance this year of one of them being beaten by a No. 16 seed for the first time in tournament history. Specifically, there is about a 15 percent chance that at least one of them will lose. The reason has less to do with the No. 1 seeds and more to do with the No. 16 seeds, who are pretty decent this year. The expansion of the play-in round last year meant that the very weakest No. 16 seeds will be weeded out before they play one of the big names, and a lot of the smaller conferences this year had at least one pretty good team."

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/fivethirtyeight-picks-the-n-c-a-a-bracket/

[KamaAina]

2. Funny you should mention that

No. 1 Syracuse trails No. 16 UNC-Asheville at the half.

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/boxscore?gid=201203150553

Of course, even if UNC-A pulls off the shocker, it'll have a Barry Bonds-size *; 'Cuse was made a 1 seed before it lost star Fab Melo to "eligibility issues".

[KamaAina]

3. 'Cuse pulls it out 72-65

Sigh... and that was probably the best chance.

[lastlib]

6. What means 'Fab Melo'??

Someone's nickname? or a rap artist? a la 'P. Diddyshit' or whatever?

sounds pretty stupid to me.....but what do I know?

. . . . . . . . .

[JonLP24]

7. Fab is short for Fabricio

His first name.

[Common Sense Party]

4. Not with refs like in the Syracuse-UNCA game.

They definitely wanted Cuse to win.

[GeorgeGist]

5. Amen to that.

Nonetheless, Boeheim is going down. Big time.