The Standings After the Sweet 16 ...

DOWN GOES PITT ...

From ESPN.com

WASHINGTON -- Matt Howard made one free throw with 0.8 seconds left to cap a wild final sequence, and Butler added another amazing victory to its list of NCAA tournament upsets, eliminating top-seeded Pittsburgh 71-70 Saturday.

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Here's the Top 5 After the First Round ...

Here are the Monkey's Picks ...

The Monkey has already taken some hits in the first round ... here is his bracket.

MMHQ

It has started ...

The tournament has "started". I will wait for Thursday to REALLY claim it has started but, there's some basketball on.

The Monkey has made his picks and they will be posted here soon. For those who have never played here before, I thought I would describe the contest.

• There is no fee
• There is no award
• There is a Hall of Fame
• There is a Hall of Shame

The Hall of Fame consists of the Top 5 scorers (w/ties) in each year. The Hall of Shame is a little harder to explain.

Here at The Monkey Madness, we have an expert prognosticator, Madness Monkey. He uses the very latest in coin-flipping technology to make his picks; that's it. His half-wit brother Homer has an equally simple, yet vastly more successful method. He simply picks the higher seed in every game.

Those are the barometers ... judge yourself against them. I will warn you that Madness HAS selected the winner before and his picks this year aren't too crazy. For those who don't believe or trust the coin-flip, we don't care.

Enter at your own risk ...

MMHQ

You Can Enter Your Picks NOW

Here is the link to the Entry Form:

http://www.mysideline.com/u/3465/collegebbmens/tournamententry.htm

Good Luck!

The Website is Up ...Same Address as Before ...

http://www.mysideline.com/u/3465/collegebbmens/

The bracket will be up as soon as it is announced. We here at MMHQ hope that both Virginia Tech and Alabama are in the tournament. Here is the latest Bubble Watch from CBSSports.com.