Baron Davis is not in college

While you’re all reassessing your lives amid the wreckage of the Warriors and their strange blowout win over the Mavericks last night (breaking their 17-game win streak), here’s our official NCAA Tourney Manifesto: we haven’t even looked at the brackets yet.

Hopefully we get to it by Thursday. All we really know is that we like Ohio State because we went there and stuff. We also know of the existence of someone called Kevin Durant, although we’ve never seen him play.

(Dirty secret – we actually don’t like college hoops that much. Too hard to follow, no stars, etc, etc. We’re one of those NBA-centric people.)

THAT SAID, the guys over at NBX DOT COM have extended us an invite to participate in their Battle of the Bloggers thinigie, and we’d like to have one of you go and try to win the $100 prize and free ad space in our name.

Here’s the description of what it’s all about:

First off, just to clarify…this NOT a bracket. Instead of making your picks and sitting back passively, you will actually be betting in our fantasy sportsbook all tournament long. [THE CAVALIER note: this is where we dropped out mentally.] Point spreads, moneylines and over/unders will be there for every single game. Although, you’d probably be wise to pick your spots, since you are NOT required to bet on all 63 games.

Second, the details…
- Each player will get 100,000 point in your bankroll to start.
- You can get 1,000 “charity” points every day just to keep you in the hunt IF you go bust early.
- There’s a max bet of 10,000 points per line per game.
- “Buddy Bets” are allowed. So you can create your own odds, spreads and totals and send them out to everybody else. It’s a bit risky to be the bookie but the rewards can be huge.
- 1st Place: $100 cash, a keg of beer, AND free advertising with 1 million ad impressions from our site in April and 1 month sponsorship of our NBX Classic tournament
- 2nd Place: $50 cash, a pony keg, 250,000 ad impressions
- 3rd Place: $25 cash, a case of beer, 100,000 ad impressions

Now, not being a big gambler, we have no idea what most of that means or how to do it anyway, so this is all pretty much beyond us. We’d love to have an official rep take our place, however – the guys over there are great, the site is cool, and they sent us a free hat once, too.

You win, and you can have the money, the beer, and the ad space, although your ad must be stupid, for something completely bizarre, and approved by us. We’ll of course ask you to send in updates on your progress to post here, and make fun of you if you screw it up.

If you’d be interested in doing this for us (and for yourself), send us an email at yaysports@gmail.com and tell us why.