2016 CAA Tournament Score Prediction Contest

[EvanJ]

I hope a few people will come to this topic every day of the tournament to predict all 9 games. You can make predictions for every round before the tournament starts, but a prediction only counts if you had both teams in the game correct. You can change predictions as often as you want until a game starts. Even if the games start later than announced, predictions must be made by the announced start times of Friday at 6:00 and 8:30; Saturday at 12:00, 2:30, 6:00, and 8:30; Sunday at 1:00 and 3:30; and Monday at 7:00. Here is how I will evaluate predictions:

100 - 3* points you were off on the margin - points you were off on the total score

If Hofstra wins 80-75, and you predicted them to win 79-70, you would be 4 points off on the margin and 6 points off on the total scores, giving your prediction 82 points.

I predict:

Elon 74, Drexel 69 (Elon beat Drexel by 5 in both games so far)
College of Charleston 67, Delaware 56

Hofstra vs. To Be Determined
James Madison 73, William & Mary 72 (each team beat the other by 6)
UNC Wilmington vs. To Be Determined
Northeastern 73, Towson 71

[HofstraMathew]

Drexel 71 Elon 69
College of Charleston 61 Delaware 50

William & Mary 73 James Madison 70
Towson 74 Northeastern 70

May edit these but off the top of my head these are my predictions for the four games we know about so far.

[dan10]

I think I won last year, so I will join in again. If you wanted to do a straight tournament projection the JMU board has a decent size group playing along. They dont have scores and dont do round by round like this one, though.

Drexel- 71
Elon- 77

Delaware: 54
CofC- 59

[EvanJ]

I think I won last year, so I will join in again. If you wanted to do a straight tournament projection the JMU board has a decent size group playing along. They dont have scores and dont do round by round like this one, though.

Drexel- 71
Elon- 77

Delaware: 54
CofC- 59

I saw what the JMU board has. You did win last year, albeit with only three people predicting every game. You got 574, I got 554, and dutchiedoright got 410. Since I'm going to the CAA Tournament and I don't want to forget, I'm going to make two predictions for Hofstra's Quarterfinal:

Hofstra 78, Elon 72
Hofstra 73, Drexel 63

Anybody who doesn't want to make predictions during the tournament could hypothetically made predictions in advance for every possible matchup.

[EvanJ]

Game 1 prediction scores:

HofstraMathew: 70
EvanJ: 52
dan10: 44

[HofstraMathew]

Hofstra 71 Drexel 61
UNCW 63 CofC 55 (I will edit this if DE ends up winning)

[EvanJ]

I predict UNC Wilmington to beat College of Charleston 67-61.

Game 2 prediction scores:

dan10: 80
EvanJ: 72
HofstraMathew: 60

Cumulative prediction scores:

HofstraMathew: 130
dan10: 124
EvanJ: 124

dan10 hasn't predicted tomorrow's games.

[dan10]

Drexel- 68
Hofstra- 78

W&M- 72
JMU- 69

CofC- 52
UNCW- 74

Northeastern- 55
Towson- 57

[EvanJ]

Game 3:

dan10: 90
EvanJ: 80
HofstraMathew: 76

Game 4:

HofstraMathew: 64
dan10: 62
EvanJ: 50

Cumulative:

dan10: 276
HofstraMathew: 270
EvanJ: 254

[EvanJ]

Game 5:

EvanJ: 86
HofstraMathew: 70
dan10: 36

Game 6:

EvanJ: 60
HofstraMathew: 42
dan10: 42

Cumulative:

EvanJ: 400
HofstraMathew: 382
dan10: 354

Here are my Semifinal predictions:

William & Mary 77, Hofstra 75 (not what I want to happen)
UNC Wilmington 71, Northeastern 70

[HofstraMathew]

Hofstra 79 William & Mary 69
UNCW 73 Northeastern 70

[dan10]

Bad last 2 games for me. Hopefully today goes better.

W&M- 76
Hofstra- 82

NU- 68
UNCW- 75

[HofstraMathew]

Prediction;
Hofstra 72- UNCW 68

[EvanJ]

Prediction;
Hofstra 72- UNCW 68

I'm surprised that you didn't post that you got the correct score for UNC Wilmington vs. Northeastern.

Game 7:

EvanJ: 70
dan10: 70
HofstraMathew: 68

Game 8:

HofstraMathew: 100
EvanJ: 92
dan10: 88

Cumulative:

EvanJ: 562
HofstraMathew: 550
dan10: 512

I predict:

UNC Wilmington 72, Hofstra 71

HofstraMathew leads me by 12 points. Since he posted first, I could have made the same prediction to guarantee that I win (unless we make bad predictions and dan10 does much better), but I'm not going to do that. If HofstraMathew or I gets the exact score of the Final, the other one of us will get 82 points, so HofstraMathew can win by up to 6 points. If there is a tie, the winner will be whoever made the best prediction for the Final.

[dan10]

UNCW- 78
Hofstra- 71

[EvanJ]

Game 9:

dan10: 96
EvanJ: 72
HofstraMathew: 54

Final Scores:

EvanJ: 634
dan10: 608
HofstraMathew: 604

[dan10]

Darn, dug a hole too deep to overcome. Good job Evan

[Wags]

Prediction;
Hofstra 72- UNCW 68

Might have been this score exactly, if Green made two of the three layups he missed in the second half, or if he just made one and Tanksley didn't miss his second-half layup.

[HofstraMathew]

Prediction;
Hofstra 72- UNCW 68

Might have been this score exactly, if Green made two of the three layups he missed in the second half, or if he just made one and Tanksley didn't miss his second-half layup.

Or only one off if the half court three pointer at the end went in.

[Wags]

Prediction;
Hofstra 72- UNCW 68

Might have been this score exactly, if Green made two of the three layups he missed in the second half, or if he just made one and Tanksley didn't miss his second-half layup.

Or only one off if the half court three pointer at the end went in.

Green deserved that one to go in for the season he had. Imagine winning the title that way? Would have been incredible. Oh well.