Little East Pick 'em League

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

Week 6:

Tuesday, January 5:
Castleton (4-7) @ Keene State (6-3) 6:00 PM
Wesleyan (10-1) @ RI College (1-10) 7:00 PM
Eastern Connecticut (8-4) @ Amherst (9-1) 7:00 PM
Tufts (8-2) @ UMass-Boston (5-5) 7:00 PM
Newbury (2-7) @ Plymouth State (10-1) 7:30 PM

Wednesday, January 6:
Western Connecticut (7-4) @ Mitchell (1-5) 5:00 PM
UMass-Dartmouth (6-5) @ Regis (MA) () 7:00 PM

Bonus points, worth 1 point each.  No penalty for wrong answer:

Bonus #1 (locks at 3 PM Saturday): How many total points will be scored in the 4 conference games?  549 points or fewer vs. 550 points or more
Bonus #2 (locks at 4:30 Saturday): How many ROAD teams will win in the NFL Wildcard rounds?  Matchups: AFC #5 Kansas City (11-5) @ #4 Houston (9-7), AFC #6 Pittsburgh (10-6) @ #3 Cincinnati (12-4); NFC #6 Seattle (10-6) @ #3 Minnesota (11-5), NFC #5 Green Bay (10-6) @ #4 Washington (9-7). 2 or 3 road teams vs. Any other number of road teams win (0, 1 or all 4).
My entire NFL playoff prediction...
AFC: 5 KC over 4 Houston, 6 Pitt over 3 Cincy... 2 NE over 5 KC, 6 Pitt over 1 Den... 6 Pitt over 2 NE
NFC: 5 GB over 4 Wash, 3 Minn over 6 Sea... 1 Car over 5 GB, 2 Ari over 3 Minn... 1 Car over 2 Ari
SB: Carolina over Pittsburgh 31-17

[7express]

Tuesday, January 5:
Castleton (4-7) @ Keene State (6-3) 6:00 PM
Wesleyan (10-1) @ RI College (1-10) 7:00 PM
Eastern Connecticut (8-4) @ Amherst (9-1) 7:00 PM
Tufts (8-2) @ UMass-Boston (5-5) 7:00 PM
Newbury (2-7) @ Plymouth State (10-1) 7:30 PM

[7express]

Just added: A 3rd bonus selection for Thursday with a 7 PM lock time: Connecticut basketball top 12 showdown, #8 Cromwell (6-0) @ #12 Morgan (7-1) & #4 Farmington (5-1) @ #11 Conard (6-0).  Which game will have a larger margin of victory: Cromwell vs. Morgan or Farmington vs. Conard/both games decided by the same amount.

[warriorcat]

Tuesday, January 5:
Castleton (4-7) @ Keene State (6-3) 6:00 PM
Wesleyan (10-1) @ RI College (1-10) 7:00 PM
Eastern Connecticut (8-4) @ Amherst (9-1) 7:00 PM
Tufts (8-2) @ UMass-Boston (5-5) 7:00 PM
Newbury (2-7) @ Plymouth State (10-1) 7:30 PM

Wednesday, January 6:
Western Connecticut (7-4) @ Mitchell (1-5) 5:00 PM
UMass-Dartmouth (6-5) @ Regis (MA) () 7:00 PM

I really wanted to find one game where I could be different from the earlier pickers.  There is nothing even tempting.

[WPI89]

Just added: A 3rd bonus selection for Thursday with a 7 PM lock time: Connecticut basketball top 12 showdown, #8 Cromwell (6-0) @ #12 Morgan (7-1) & #4 Farmington (5-1) @ #11 Conard (6-0).  Which game will have a larger margin of victory: Cromwell vs. Morgan or Farmington vs. Conard/both games decided by the same amount.

7 - I think you left off the word "girls" on this one, correct?  I predict Conard/Farmington will have a larger margin.

[amh63]

WPI89...sharp eye!  See the Engineers are getting love in the polls.  Going up after barely winning the other day against ENC.  just pulling your string .
Good grief...7 Express is now putting HS games on the pick list.  I know, it is a bonus selection.

[magicman]

Just added: A 3rd bonus selection for Thursday with a 7 PM lock time: Connecticut basketball top 12 showdown, #8 Cromwell (6-0) @ #12 Morgan (7-1) & #4 Farmington (5-1) @ #11 Conard (6-0).  Which game will have a larger margin of victory: Cromwell vs. Morgan or Farmington vs. Conard/both games decided by the same amount.

7,

I don't think that you should be adding this to the pick 'em league. You are allowing some players to gain bonus points over players like myself and others who don't have a clue who these teams are. And you telling me I don't have to make a choice  because I don't get penalized is not true because if you don't choose you do get penalized as other players can get bonus points that you can't get. I'm not going to try and figure out who these teams are, if I even could and so some of the players in this league who are local, will have a leg up.  Sorry, but this is college hoops not high school.     

[warriorcat]

With four of the five matchups in the books, it looks like everyone picked the games correctly.  I am not sure that anyone thought some of the games would be as close as they were.  Let's see if Plymouth gives us a clean sweep of picks.

[magicman]

And Plymouth wins to indeed give us a clean sweep, but that was an easy slate to pick the probable winners from.

amh63 could have thrown darts at our names to pick which horse he was going to ride and couldn't go wrong.

Eastern Connecticut was the only one that tempted me after Amherst lost the other day. But I would have bet a lot of money that Rhode island wouldn't be the school  to go to overtime in their game. Hey you never know.

In my SUNYAC conference tonight the defending champs and currently #20 Oswego State Lakers, who returned just about everybody from last season, got their butts kicked by Oneonta a team that barely got into the playoffs last year. Final score of that game....Oneonta 90 Oswego 52. And the last place team in the conference Fredonia who was 1-7 went into 6-1 Geneseo's house and beat the Knights by an 86-83 score. Typical SUNYAC season just heating up. 

[7express]

I'll throw out the bonus 3 then.  Since I'm in last by like 50 points I don't think anyone would care if I picked that bonus 3 correctly anyways.

[amh63]

Good man 7!   Your luck will improve . In any case, plus K.....and I care.

[magicman]

I'll throw out the bonus 3 then.  Since I'm in last by like 50 points I don't think anyone would care if I picked that bonus 3 correctly anyways.

Thank you and you can have that 3rd bonus point. 

[WPI89]

7 - now I have an emotional investment in CT girls hoops - please at least report the scores to us after Thursday night!

[booyakasha]

I'll throw out the bonus 3 then.  Since I'm in last by like 50 points I don't think anyone would care if I picked that bonus 3 correctly anyways.

This is a relief, though honestly I was just going to pull an Amh63 and copy your picks 7express , since you seem to be the only one who knows anything about these CT high schools.

[warriorcat]

Thursday, January 7:
UMass-Boston (6-5 /5-6) @ Bridgewater State (3-8/ 4-7) 5:30 PM
Colby-Sawyer (7-3/ 6-4) @ Keene State (6-4 /7-3) 6:00 PM
Plymouth State (11-1/ 10-2) @ Green Mountain (7-2) 7:00 PM

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