Navigation: Jump to content areas:


Pro Quality. Fan Perspective.
Login-facebook
Around SBN: The 2012 Knicks Are Dead, Long Live The 2012 Knicks

Beat the Barkers 2012 NCAA Tourney Bracket

Step 1: Register your handle and set up a bracket here.

There's no individual group for the Barkers, it's one big free-for-all-toss-your-keys-in-the-bowl-wife-swapping melee. Lil Wayne might end up with yours, but you could score Kate Upton. Worth a shot, yes? This is a celebrity bracket and Drew Brees feels honored to be in our presence.

Star-divide

We'll probably set up another BC-only bracket at some point but you're going to need a few 12 of them to nail the Final Four. This Yahoo! bracket pays out $10 million for a clean sheet. The winner of ours will get an hour with the one and only tethered Laotian prostitute and a tote bag signed by Dave Bliss.

BC's GUIDE TO A PERFECT BRACKET

We set the bar fairly low around here, so by perfect we mean having at least four teams alive in the Elite Eight, three out of the Final Four, and correctly guessing the national champion with a coin flip.

If you get stuck on a certain matchup, here's a cheat sheet:

Peaking at the right time

CIncinnatti

FSU

Michigan State

Vandy

Mizzou

Louisville

New Mexico

Georgetown

Marquette

Whatever happens, it's been a good season!

Texas

Colorado

VCU

Iona (wtf?)

UConn

Memphis

Virginia

South Florida

Gonzaga

Toughest Region: East

Easiest Draws: Sparty / Syracuse

First #1 seed to fall: North Carolina

Sucker 12/5 bet: Harvard over Vandy (blame Jeremy Lin)

Wild ass upsets you don't have the balls to pick: Iowa State over Kentucky, SDSU over Georgetown, Ohio over Michigan, Purdue over Kansas, Montana over Wiscy. WE GUARANTEE ONE OF THESE HAPPENS.

The next George Mason: Wichita State

National Champion Pick: Probably not Lehigh or Loyola, most likely Kentucky, but maybe Michigan State or Syracuse.

If you don't have nightmares between now and Friday about Cincy's 6'8 260 lb bounty hunting power forward, you need to rethink your commitment to March Madness. The hoops artist formerly known as Trips Right put it thusly:

"We're about to get our shit pushed in".

In J'Covan We Trust.

Yahoo! Tourney Pick'em supports SBNation and the best college sports tournament of the year. Join the bracket pools of Drew Brees, Michael Phelps, and Lil Wayne-- all while competing in the $5 million Perfect Bracket and $10,000 Best Bracket Sweepstakes. Be part of the best and biggest Yahoo! Sports tourney game yet – sign up today!

Tweet Comment 9 comments  |  Add comment  |  0 recs  | 

Do you like this story?

More from Barking Carnival

Buick Human Highlight Reel and Final Four

Mar 2012 by Sailor Ripley - 20 comments

Duke-Butler Delivers for CBS

Apr 2010 by srr50 - 3 comments

The Butler Almost Did It.

Apr 2010 by Scipio Tex - 41 comments

Your Final 4 Open Thread

Apr 2010 by Scipio Tex - 25 comments

Comments

Display:

Lil Wayne?

What about Lil Red?

Good stuff, Vash. As always, looking forward to the madness.

by Sailor Ripley on Mar 12, 2026 12:46 AM CDT reply actions  

Speaking of Cincy's beast . . .

wish we still had Wangmene’s 5 fouls to spend on him

by Cirque Du Salado on Mar 12, 2026 5:21 AM CDT reply actions  

Does it make me lazy if I don’t feel like making a yahoo account?

by UT_BKC on Mar 12, 2026 12:36 PM CDT reply actions  

No

Lazy is running under a screen against a good 3 point shooter.

by Cirque Du Salado on Mar 12, 2026 1:00 PM CDT reply actions  

How do you access your saved bracket to edit it.

by boorad on Mar 12, 2026 1:03 PM CDT reply actions  

I must really hate the Big East....

They all seem to have tough 11-14 seeds in the first round match ups, and I like KSU to kill ‘Cuse on the boards. That’s a bad matchup for Syracuse, it seems.

Here’s the Rathskeller’s take: http://rathskeller.fantake.com/2012/03/12/the-rathskellers-ncaa-tournament-analysis/

by A-Tex Devil on Mar 12, 2026 1:24 PM CDT reply actions  

Watch out for #13 seed Davidson vs. #4 seed Louisville

Although I come from a long family line of Longhorns, I’m a ‘01 Davidson graduate and I follow the team closely. Steph Curry ain’t walking through that door but Davidson has a very deep, balanced squad and they beat Kansas in St. Louis, lost to Vandy by 2, and they were beating Duke at Cameron at halftime (the Wildcats also got blown out by 18 at home against Wichita State in the Bracketbuster matchup). Of all the #4 seeds, Louisville was arguably the best draw and although I doubt the Wildcats will win, I would not be surprised if Davidson pulls up the upset if they nail their 3’s and keep their co-POY big men Brooks and Cohen out of foul trouble. Having seen Wichita State in person…they are the real deal and they were as impressive of an opponent as I saw all year. I would have the Shockers going far in your bracket. Let’s hope the Horns make some noise as well.

by TexcatNC on Mar 12, 2026 2:21 PM CDT reply actions  

I have had

the Shockers fingered for quite some time. I’m ready to watch them make some noise when the pressure is applied.

by nordberg on Mar 12, 2026 9:20 PM CDT up reply actions  


User Tools

An SB Nation blog mostly about the Texas Longhorns.

FanPosts

Community blog posts and discussion.

Recent FanPosts

Bc_logo_257x257_small
Vince Young Signs One-Year Contract With Buffalo Bills
Small
Ha! Madden has this to say " We are very fortunate to have Bennie join myself and Donnie Maib. Now the University of Texas has three Master Strength and Conditioning Coaches."
Smokey_small
Thoughts on Robbie Rhodes
Britthager_display_image_small
Spiderman is a plus athlete, IMO
Justified-olyphant_small
Texas to Play Georgetown in Jimmy V Classic
Bc_logo_257x257_small
Florida State adds new ambassador to its stables
Bc_logo_257x257_small
SB Nation's Pick 6 Game for MLB
Bc_logo_257x257_small
Bevel vs. Bevo: Which Will Be A Bigger Rival?
Bc_logo_257x257_small
Fight On USC Troll-jans
Bc_logo_257x257_small
College Football Playoff Being Finalized

+ New FanPost All FanPosts >


Managers

Archer_290_small Scipio Tex

Bc_logo_257x257_small Sailor Ripley

Editors

Nobis_small nobis60

Link2_small BrickHorn

Propeller_helmet_small Huck L Berry

Picture_016_small srr50

Boyd_small Vasherized

Justified-olyphant_small jc25

Billlittle0_small Fake Ken Tremendous

Authors

Guadfish3_small dedfischer

Williams_ranger_dugout_small WWMcClyde

Small TaylorTRoom

Small mlcotcher

Jonathan_tjarks_small tjarks

Small ColoradoAg

Long_illustrated_beard_small LonghornScott

Salado_small Cirque Du Salado

2478379451_fddcbc40d1_b_small davey o'brien

Small BatesHorn

Small Nickel Rover

Adam_jones_2011_small jonestopten

Thumbnailcahvcqzr_small Kashmere Thoughts

Small John Kocurek

Thumbnail_small Drew Kelson

Barker Emeritus

Small Kevin Berger

Tn_homeimage7_small Parlin

220px-henry_james_by_john_singer_sargent_cleaned_small HenryJames

Small Doperbo