the chutry experiment

The gender lopsidedness of my setup has really been bothering me, Chuck, and there you go pointing it out! So now I'm going to root around Yahoo! to find a women's tourney pick'em. -DM

Oh, I didn't mean to imply anything like that at all. It's much harder to find women's brackets, in part because visibility is so minimal. I think ESPN2 has been airing a few women's games this year (my dad called me after Purdue won the women's Big Ten Tournament). It's too bad though. I know the Purdue women play exciting basketball, and it has been fun to watch their players develop over the years (unlike men's BB in which the better players leave after 1-2 years of college).

I had to look beyond Yahoo! to find a women's bracket, but I located one and set it up at ESPN.com. It's not as easy to follow the games; the men's tournament overtakes all of the national media coverage. So we'll see if anyone signs up for the women's bracket, too. Funny, when I made my selections in the women's tourney, ESPN's marketing algorithm peppered me with ads encouraging the purchase of Maxim and the SI swimsuit edition. Made me want to go back and register as a woman to see what they would try to sell. -DM

I decided to register as a woman, just to avoid getting Maxim ads. I opted out of almost all the advertising, so the only ad I remember seeing was for HP.

Looks like it's just the two of us in the women's pool. Guess nobody else was paying attention. That or our mentions of La. Tech and Purdue kept 'em walking by, figuring, "why bother, got no chance." Good news is one of us'll win the pool.