College Basketball Webmaster: Learn About This Site's Owner
Hello and welcome to College Basketball Rankings which is a part of the AnyGivenFan Network. My name is Jim Polak and I've been a college basketball fanatic for as long as I can remember (Villanova over Georgetown was my first real college basketball memory. I was almost ten at the time). I've been filling out NCAA tournament brackets since I was a kid, entering all sorts of contests. My greatest achievement in filling out March Madness brackets came in 1991, the year Duke beat UNLV in the Final Four and went on to victory over Kansas in the national championship game. I entered a contest in Basketball Weekly which I had a subscription to. I nailed 3 of the 4 Final Four teams. Most of America figured UNLV was going to easily repeat as champions since the Running Rebels had everyone back from the 1990 team that beat Duke by 30 in the final. Not me. I was on the Duke bandwagon the second the 1990 championship was over with. I knew Duke also had everyone back and I loved their style of
play. I talked up the Dukies all season and chose them to win it all in the 1991 Basketball Weekly NCAA tournament contest.
The 1991 tourney came and went and I knew I had filled out a great bracket. The next issue of Basketball Weekly arrived at our house and I quick flipped through the pages looking for the results of the contest. "Michigan Man Wins". That was the headline and of course they were talking about me, a sophomore in high school at the time. I had beat out 4000 contestants and won the grand prize of $250 plus got my name in the weekly publication. Funny thing was the guy who came in second got a lifetime subscription which I didn't get. Anyway I brought the issue to school the next day and my buddies ran it down to the high school office to get my accomplishment announced over the speakers(along with the regular daily school announcements). So for one day I was known as "the kid who won the NCAA contest".
March Madness is my favorite time of the sports year. I love college hoops and there's nothing like the conference tournaments, the projections leading up to the NCAA tourney, the announcement of the field of 65, and the Big Dance itself. It's so much fun filling out tourney brackets, I never fill out just one. I enjoy the challenge of building the best bracket possible and the anticipation of the first round games. I like to look back at NCAA tournament history and analyze the statistics and trends that have developed over the last twenty years. Some people will say there is no strategy to filling out an NCAA bracket. I disagree. Certainly there is luck involved, but with a deep knowledge of the current season as well as past NCAA tournaments you can give yourself an edge over your NCAA bracket competition. I'll share my March Madness bracket strategy and philosophy within this site.
Besides my passion for filling out NCAA tournament brackets I have 10 years of fantasy football experience that includes 4 league championships and 5 runner-up finishes. I also have 2 years of fantasy basketball experience that has resulted in 1 league championship and 1 runner-up finish. Fantasy golf is another area that I'm diving into and I've got 1 league championship to show for my efforts. I also have to mention college football as I've been entering bowl game contests since I was a kid.
In 2004 I wrote and sold an e-book about fantasy football plus I ran a weekly fantasy football newsletter. I made the decision to focus on other business interests during 2005 and 2006. During the summer of 2007 I had a desire to get back to working on projects related to my interests and knowledge-base. That's where this site comes into play. The goal of this site is to take all of my college basketball knowledge and NCAA bracket strategies and share them with visitors to this site. Basically my tournament bracket thought process can be your tournament bracket thought process. I'm just taking my knowledge and opinions and offering them to you in the form of website articles.
Thanks for visiting and I hope the information, viewpoints, and bracket strategies provided on this college basketball site are interesting and helpful to you.
Wishing you March Madness success,
Jim Polak
College-Basketball-Rankings.com
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The 1991 tourney came and went and I knew I had filled out a great bracket. The next issue of Basketball Weekly arrived at our house and I quick flipped through the pages looking for the results of the contest. "Michigan Man Wins". That was the headline and of course they were talking about me, a sophomore in high school at the time. I had beat out 4000 contestants and won the grand prize of $250 plus got my name in the weekly publication. Funny thing was the guy who came in second got a lifetime subscription which I didn't get. Anyway I brought the issue to school the next day and my buddies ran it down to the high school office to get my accomplishment announced over the speakers(along with the regular daily school announcements). So for one day I was known as "the kid who won the NCAA contest".
March Madness is my favorite time of the sports year. I love college hoops and there's nothing like the conference tournaments, the projections leading up to the NCAA tourney, the announcement of the field of 65, and the Big Dance itself. It's so much fun filling out tourney brackets, I never fill out just one. I enjoy the challenge of building the best bracket possible and the anticipation of the first round games. I like to look back at NCAA tournament history and analyze the statistics and trends that have developed over the last twenty years. Some people will say there is no strategy to filling out an NCAA bracket. I disagree. Certainly there is luck involved, but with a deep knowledge of the current season as well as past NCAA tournaments you can give yourself an edge over your NCAA bracket competition. I'll share my March Madness bracket strategy and philosophy within this site.
Besides my passion for filling out NCAA tournament brackets I have 10 years of fantasy football experience that includes 4 league championships and 5 runner-up finishes. I also have 2 years of fantasy basketball experience that has resulted in 1 league championship and 1 runner-up finish. Fantasy golf is another area that I'm diving into and I've got 1 league championship to show for my efforts. I also have to mention college football as I've been entering bowl game contests since I was a kid.
In 2004 I wrote and sold an e-book about fantasy football plus I ran a weekly fantasy football newsletter. I made the decision to focus on other business interests during 2005 and 2006. During the summer of 2007 I had a desire to get back to working on projects related to my interests and knowledge-base. That's where this site comes into play. The goal of this site is to take all of my college basketball knowledge and NCAA bracket strategies and share them with visitors to this site. Basically my tournament bracket thought process can be your tournament bracket thought process. I'm just taking my knowledge and opinions and offering them to you in the form of website articles.
Thanks for visiting and I hope the information, viewpoints, and bracket strategies provided on this college basketball site are interesting and helpful to you.
Wishing you March Madness success,
Jim Polak
College-Basketball-Rankings.com
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