ASR League March Madness

Let’s celebrate the Gophers’ NCAA Tournament appearance with a little March Madness of our own. If you’d like to participate, you can find a Gophers basketball hoop in either Williamson or Fraser and play to enter! Complete your “regular season” by March 31, and see if you earn a place in the 2017 ASR League March Madness bracket.

• Regular season (starting Monday, March 20 and must be completed by Friday, March 31): Anyone vying for a coveted tournament spot takes 20 shots that must be witnessed by an ASR employee. Enter your scores on the 2017 ASR League March Madness Google Sheet. Each player has the option to shoot from the 2-point line or 3-point line on each shot. Your 20 shots can be any combination of 2-point and/or 3-point attempts. The total points after 20 shots is the player's regular season score. All players will be ranked by score and tournament seeding will be determined based on scores and ranking. Players “on the bubble” will have a tournament-style playoff to determine whether they get in. Brackets will be determined similar to the NCAA bracket with higher seeds playing lower seeds.
• Tournament (starting April 3): Players will earn tournament seeds based their regular season score rankings. The bracket size will depend upon the number of participants. Tournament participants will be paired up and play a 10-shot head-to-head game. The winner of the game is the highest score after 10 shots. Ties result in overtime. Overtime is 5 additional shots, repeated until there is a winner. Players will be methodically and systematically eliminated until there is only 1 player left—who will be named the 2017 ASR League March Madness Champion! The Final Four will be played in a larger venue to accommodate a larger audience..

Contacts & logistics: Please contact Jeff Idle (jsidle@umn.edu) with any questions. Jeff is the Williamson Hall captain and Chelsea Weber is the Fraser Hall captain. The Williamson Hall official hoop is in Williamson Hall Suite 160 in the ASR Student Data & Analytics area (go through the main doors, make a right, and go all the way to the back). The Fraser Hall official hoop is in Fraser Hall Room 200. If you’d like to play, please be sure to complete your 20 shots and log them on the tracking sheet by the end of the day on Friday, March 31. Any University of Minnesota staff or faculty member is welcome to participate.