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    Official Scorekeeper SkyWalker's Avatar
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    Arrow Happy Halloween and Pick the Score - Niagara

    Pick the Score - Niagara

    Ten days until tip-off of Xavier Basketball.

    Ready for another season of Pick the Score?

    Scoring Rules
    Net the difference from the actual Xavier score and your predicted Xavier score.
    Net the difference from the opponent score and your predicted opponent score.
    Add these two numbers together and subtract from 100.
    Award a 5 point bonus for picking the winning team.
    Award a 25 point bonus for predicting both the winner and the exact score of the game.

    Scoring Example
    You pick Xavier to beat Niagara 74-52
    Xavier wins 69-54
    74-69 = 5 (Xavier component)
    54-52 = 2 Niagara component)
    5+2 = 7 (Sum both components)
    100 – 7 = 93 (Subtract from 100)
    93 + 5 (Add winning team bonus) = 98 (Your score)

    Other Rules
    If you fail to pick a score, you will receive the lowest reasonable total points earned by another entrant for that game. That is called the Minimum Score. If you enter the contest after the first game, you will receive the Minimum Score for prior games.

    A non-reasonable score entry will not be counted as the Minimum Score. A non-reasonable score is something like Xavier to win 155-2. Another example would be if the second lowest score is 72 and the lowest score is 55, I would use 72 as the Minimum Score to prevent someone being over penalized for non-entry. This will be determined solely by me.

    Tie Breaker: There is a tie breaker for each game. In the event that multiple entrants have the same score (which often occurs), the winner or winners will be determined by picking the closest score to the Xavier score. There can still be multiple winners but there will likely be fewer overall.

    I will post a Top 10 recap for each game, Year-to Date totals for the entire season and a separate Big East total for conference opponents.

    Note: It does say conference opponents. If in the unlikely event that Xavier was to play a Big East opponent in any tournament, that game will be counted in the Big East scoring.

    All entries must be posted on the Xavier Hoops site by scheduled game time.

    This contest is for amusement only and bragging rights.

    Game #1
    Niagara Purple Eagles @Xavier Musketeers 11/9 at 7:30.

    Pick away!

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    Supporting Member paulxu's Avatar
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    Hot damn! Sure sign the season is upon us.

    XU 78
    Other guys 55
    ...he went up late, and I was already up there.

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    XU—-76
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    Senior Strange Brew's Avatar
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    X - 86
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    Official XUHoops Resident Legal Scholar.
    (Do not take this seriously)

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    Xavier 83-65
    I don't always drink beer, but when I do, I drink 2XS.

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    Did some box score and twitter scouting today of some Ferris State playing Michigan State. Spartans destroyed Ferris St. 92-58.

    https://www.ferrisstatebulldogs.com/...27_October.pdf

    MSU turned ball over 27 times vs 17 TO's for Ferris St.
    MSU shot 7/18 from 3 (36.8% )
    Purple Eagles shot 25% from 3 (7/28)
    Four basic contributors (points/ rebounds, etc) for Eagles were:
    #0 6 '0 Walt Kelser 12 points 3 assists.
    #34 6'10 Vejas Grazulis 10 points 4 rebounds
    #24 6'3 Jimmy Scholler 3 pts 6 rebounds
    #21 6'0 Ethan Erickson 8 points
    Last edited by xukeith; 10-31-2021 at 03:58 PM.

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    Purple Eagles 66
    X- 88
    Last edited by xukeith; 11-01-2021 at 08:44 AM.

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    It's time for a bourbon on the rocks!

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    I still believe. muskiefan82's Avatar
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    We've come a long way since my bench seat at the Fieldhouse!

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    If I was going to school for school, I wouldn’t have picked the University of Cincinnati. Dontonio Wingfield

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