Big Sky Conference Tournament

With tonight's 84-64 win for the Weber State Wildcats over Montana State Bobcats up in Bozeman, Montana.

Thw Wildcats finish the regular season with a mark of 15-1 / 21-8!

The final standings are as follows and the top 6 get to advance to the Big Sky Tournament, host city Ogden, Utah because of the Wildcats awesome record.

2008-09 Big Sky Men's Basketball Standings

	School	Big Sky	Overall	Streak	Home	Away	Neutral
1.	Weber State*	15-1	21-8	W12	10-2	9-5	2-1
2.	Portland State*	11-5	21-9	W4	12-1	7-7	2-1
	Montana*	11-5	17-11	L1	12-2	5-9	0-0
4.	Idaho State*	9-7	12-18	W2	10-4	2-14	0-0
5.	Northern Colorado*	8-8	14-17	W2	10-5	3-11	1-1
6.	Montana State*	6-10	12-16	L5	8-6	4-9	0-1
	Eastern Washington	6-10	12-17	L2	10-5	2-12	0-0
8.	Northern Arizona	5-11	8-19	L2	6-5	2-14	0-0
9.	Sacramento State	1-15	2-27	L8	2-10	0-17	0-0

The pairings for the 2009 Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Championship came into focus on Sunday.

The 2009 Big Sky Championship will begin on Saturday, March 7 with first-round games. No. 6 seed Montana State will take on No. 3 seed Montana in Missoula on Saturday in Missoula at 7 p.m. Mountain.

No. 5 seed Northern Colorado will travel to No. 4 seed Idaho State. That game is also at 7 p.m. Mountain.

The two first-round winners advance to the semifinals in Ogden, Utah.

Both games will be available for free on Big Sky TV.

No. 1 seed Weber State and No. 2 seed Portland State earn byes to the conference semifinals on Tuesday, March 10 at the Dee Events Center in Ogden,

Portland State will play in the first semifinal at 5 p.m. against the highest remaining seeds. Weber State will play at 7:30 p.m. in the second semifinal against the lowest remaining seed. Both semifinals will be televised on Altitude2.

The championship game will air live on ESPN2 starting at 8 p.m. Mountain on Wednesday, March 11.

Annual Pearl Jam March Madness

I haven't updated this blog in forever, so I guess this would be a good time to do so.

This post is to make mention of the Pearl Jam Song Tournament that is held annually on the Red Mosquito pearl jam fan board (www.theskyiscrape.com).

I've set it up so that this is a 172 song competition, the songs came from the song list on pearl jam.com. They consist of the songs from the 8 studio releases, 1 B-side Compilations disc (entitled: Lost Dogs), songs that were just released as singles, the 16 10Club Holiday Singles, the two songs from the Singles Soundtrack, and then to top off the 172 song list I added the songs that were titled "PJ Original" but they can't be found on any media.

If you'd like to see the list where I got the songs from, you can go to: https://www.pearljam.com/music/songs. The only Cover Songs that I've included in this tournament are songs that were released by the 10Club for the Holiday Singles.

Now onto the Brackets and the rules to this tournament:

I've divided up the 172 songs into 4 groups (43 songs each).
Each bracket was given the unofficial name of 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008. I gave them these titles because I gave the number one seed in each of these brackets to the March Madness champion of that year, I also gave those songs a bye through the 1st and 2nd rounds (denoted on the graphic as Champion Provisional.

The Top Ten Songs in each bracket was ranked by pearljamfan80, and then 11-43 were randomly sorted by the website random.org.

With an odd number in each bracket, I had to come up with what I found as a good and unique way to get this tournament down to the Final Four and then to the Champion of all 172 songs.

This is what I came up with, 1st Round will have 14 matches of 3 songs in each match. (Song A versus Song B versus Song C).

After the 1st round all future rounds will just be a duel, Song A versus Song B.

When we get the champion of all 4 brackets the final four will be like this, the Winner of Bracket 2005 and 2007 will face off against each other, then the winner of Bracket 2006 and 2008 will face off.