There isn't much shakeup in the standings after an interesting week in the BTD College Basketball Pick'Em. In the top games of the week, Texas blew out North Carolina and Duke demolished Gonzaga. As expected, Texas beat Texas-Pan American and Kentucky defeated Austin Peay.

In the other matchup, Kansas defeated Michigan in ESPN's annual "Green Game."

So, here are your Week 6 Standings.

Place        Name                        Total Score

1st             ConnorOSU                88 Points
2nd            C_hawkfan                 77 Points
3rd             The VD Special          73 Points
4th             Figgi4life                    72 Points
5th            Jimmy James             66 Points
6th            cloudydays                 50 Points
7th            sdfan21                      46 Points 
8th            Jake Bertalotto            39 Points
9th            cmr                            30 Points
10th          Tortuga12                    24 Points

Here we are in Week 6 of College Basketball. The slate features a few great games on Saturday, but there is also a couple easy wins on the board as well.

You've got about 23 hours to make your first pick. I wanted to get it up there because it is one of the few TV games during the week. So, here are your Week 6 Picks. All times are Pacific.

Texas-Pan American @ Texas, Tuesday, 5:00 PM

Michigan @ Kansas, Saturday, 9:00 AM

North Carolina vs Texas, Saturday, 11:00 AM

Gonzaga vs Duke, Saturday, 1:00 PM

Austin Peay @ Kentucky, Saturday, 1:00 PM

Since Texas is up there twice, please refer to them in the comments section as "Texas-Tuesday" or "Texas-Saturday."

Don't forget that even if you miss some games, you can still make your picks. Just the games that have been played before won't count.

Remember to rank your picks on a confidence scale of one to five, with five being the most confident and one being the least. Also, if you miss the first game, then the scale is four to one and so on. Let me know if that doesn't make sense.

I'll have the standings up on either Saturday or Sunday.

Happy Picking! 

A very intense week in the College Basketball Pick'Em wrapped up with Georgetown defeating Washington 74-66 on Saturday. However, I posted that it was a home game for the Huskies, when it really was at a neutral site. Therefore, everyone recieved a win with the confidence points they put on it. 

In other action, Butler defeated Ohio State 74-66 on Saturday morning. On Thursday night, Syracuse went down to Tampa and defeated the Florida Gators, 85-73. In one of the best games so far this season, Kentucky defeated Connecticut 64-61 in New York City. And on Tuesday, Georgetown knocked off Butler by a final score of 72-65.

So, here are your Week 5 standings:

Place                Name                         Total Score

1st                     ConnorOSU              73 Points
2nd                    C_hawkfan                62 Points
T3                      The VD Special         60 Points
T3                      Figgi4life                  60 Points
5th                    Jimmy James            57 Points
6th                    Jake Bertalotto          39 Points
T7                     sdfan21                     36 Points
T7                     cloudydays                36 Points
9th                    cmr                           30 Points
10th                  Tortuga12                  24 Points 

Here we are in Week 5 of College Basketball. The slate is full of great games, with all of them on TV and matching Top 25 teams against each other.

I'll apologize in advance for the lack of time to make your picks this week. I was swamped all day and just remembered to post these. Anyways, you've got about 23 hours to make your first pick. So without further to do, here are your Week 5 Picks. All times are Pacific.

Butler vs Georgetown, Tuesday, 4:00 PM

Kentucky vs Connecticut, Wednesday, 6:30 PM

Syracuse vs Florida, Thursday, 6:00 PM

Ohio State @ Butler, Saturday, 9:00 AM

Georgetown @ Washington, Saturday, 11:00 AM

Since Butler is up there twice, please refer to them in the comments section as "Butler-Tuesday" or "Butler-Saturday." Also, Georgetown is up there twice so please refer to them as "Georgetown-Tuesday" or "Georgetown-Saturday."

Don't forget that even if you miss some games, you can still make your picks. Just the games that have been played before won't count.

Remember to rank your picks on a confidence scale of one to five, with five being the most confident and one being the least. Also, if you miss the first game, then the scale is four to one and so on. Let me know if that doesn't make sense.

I'll have the standings up on either Saturday or Sunday.

Happy Picking!

A fairly normal week in the College Basketball Pick'Em wrapped up today with Kansas defeating UCLA, 77-59. The week began with North Carolina defeating Michigan State 89-82. Following that, Kansas demolished Alcorn State, and Texas defeated USC. On Saturday, the Kentucky Wildcats defeated North Carolina 68-66.

So far, I am in the lead by 5 points against the next highest participant. But because I can't win the prize, C_hawkfan has the lead. 

So without further to do, here are your Week 4 standings:

Place        Name                       Total Score

1st            ConnorOSU             58 Points
2nd           C_hawkfan               53 Points
3rd            The VD Special        51 Points
4th            Jimmy James          49 Points
5th            Figgi4life                 45 Points
6th            sdfan21                   31 Points
7th            cmr                         30 Points
8th            Jake Bertalotto         27 Points
9th            Tortuga12                24 Points
10th         cloudydays               22 Points

Because I really don't want to study for Finals and the hype of Selection Sunday has gotten to me, I decided to make my own Bowl Game. I mean if Little Caesars can have it's own Bowl Game, then so can Building the Dam. http://www.littlecaesarspizzabowl.com/

So now with that out of the way, I've decided to challenge the Macho Rhino Bowl and invite Notre Dame and UCLA. What is the Macho Rhino Bowl you ask? Well you can read about it right here: 
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/302839-will-notre-dame-play-ucla-in-the-2009-macho-rhino-bowl

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While you are filling out your Bowl Selections and watching the NFL games, why not tune in for some Beaver Basketball?

Cal State Bakersfield @ OSU - 2:00 P.M. - Gill Coliseum - Listen on KPAM 860

The Beavers enter today's game with a record of 3-3 after defeating Colorado on Friday night.

The Beavers were down 5 at halftime against the Buffaloes before the Beavers came back. Oregon State outscored Colorado by 10 points in the 2nd Half en route to their 74-69 win.

Calvin Haynes and Seth Tarver lead the way for the Beavers, with Haynes recording 19 points and Tarver recording 14.

The most amazing stat of the game came in the last four minutes for the Beavers. Oregon State went 10 for 10 from the Free Throw Line in those final minutes to ice the victory. In the first twenty minutes of action, Oregon State went 9 for 16 from the Charity Stripe. If the Beavers can continue to hit their Free Thorws, then we have a serious shot at the NIT or NCAA's.

The Road Runners come into the game with a record of 1-4 after defeating Utah Valley and losing to Santa Clara, UCLA, Cal State Northridge, and UC Riverside. Trent Blakley and Donavan Bragg have lead the way for CSBU, with Blakley averaging 17.2 points per game so far and Bragg with 11.8. In my mind though, the key to this game will be controlling Forward Santwon Latunde. Santwon has averaged 9.4 points per game so far this season.

Cal State Bakersfield is a Divison I Independent school.

Tip-off is set for 2:00 PM at Gill Coliseum.

--Connor (ConnorOSU@gmail.com)

The Ducks defeated Oregon State 37-33 on a cold, clear Thursday night in Eugene. Here are my thoughts on the game.

Quarterback

On the biggest and brightest stage of the season, Sean Canfield proved that he was the best Quarterback in the Pac-10 despite the loss. Sean completed 24 of 36 passes, 206 yards, 2 touchdowns, and only took 2 sacks. His throws were crisp and solid, and I can only remember one time when he missed his target.

Masoli is a great player, but if I am voting for All Pac-10 QB, you have to give the nod to Sean.

Running Backs

Despite being bottled up all night long, Jacquizz was always there when we needed to punch it in or get an important yard. The younger brother rushed for 64 yards on 16 carries, but he only found the end zone once.

It definitely won't be a game that Jacquizz wants to remember, but he was there when we needed him, and that's what I'll remember most.

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Here we are in Week 4 of College Basketball. There are a few great games this week, but they will be over-shadowed by some great Football.

I'm cutting it a little bit close with the first matchup, but we have to have the National Championship rematch up. Anyways, you've got just about 24 hours to make your first pick. So without further to do, here are your Week 4 Picks. All times are Pacific.

Michigan State @ North Carolina, Tuesday, 6:00 PM

Alcorn State @ Kansas, Wednesday, 5:00 PM

USC @ Texas, Thursday, 6:00 PM

North Carolina @ Kentucky, Saturday, 9:30 AM

Kansas @ UCLA, Sunday, 2:30 PM

Since North Carolina is up there twice, pleae refer to them in the comments section as "North Carolina-Tuesday" or "North Carolina-Saturday." Also, Kansas is up there twice so please refer to them as "Kansas-Wednesday" or Kansas-Sunday."

The Michigan State-North Carolina game should be awesome on Tuesday night. Your annual win of the week comes on Wednesday night with Alcorn State-Kansas. USC-Texas should be a pretty interesting matchup, along with the fact that it is on TV and is part of the Pac-10/Big 12 Hardwood Series, I felt like I had to include it. 

On Saturday, before the big Alabama-Florida game on the gridiorn you can tune in for the North Carolina-Kentucky game on the hardwood. Finally, the struggling Bruins welcome in the Jayhawks to Pauley Pavilion. Expect it to be close for a half, and who knows, if the Bruins catch fire they could upset top-ranked Kansas.

Don't forget that even if you miss some games, you can still make your picks. Just the games that have been played before won't count.

Remember to rank your picks on a confidence scale of one to five, with five being the most confident and one being the least. Also, if you miss the first game, then the scale is four to one and so on. Let me know if that doesn't make sense.

I'll have the standings up on either Sunday or Monday.

Happy Picking!