HUNTSVILLE — With the unveiling of the 65-team field in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament Sunday, March Madness is now upon us as well as The Huntsville Item’s annual bracket challenge.
Fill out a bracket and see how you fare against the Item sports team.
It’s pretty easy. Just sign up for a Yahoo.com e-mail account and then head on over to Tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com. Click on Join a Group. You will be asked to enter a group number and a password. The group No. is 67994 and the password is itemsports.
From there, you will pick the winner of each game, including the Final Four participants and the national champion.
The tournament begins Thursday morning, so be sure to have your bracket filled out before then.
If you have any problems, e-mail us at sports@itemonline.com or give us a call at (936) 295-5407. Best of luck everybody.
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Take your pick in the Item’s March Madness Bracket Challenge
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Hornets still rocking
The Hornets knocked off another one Friday night and improved their playoff chances immensely. Led by seniors Kriston Minor and Abram Veasey, the Huntsville boys basketball team bounced the Bulldogs from Summer Creek 52-38 to improve to 6-7 in District 18-4A play.
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Bulldogs back in the playoffs
Centerville didn’t mess around with the Bulldogs Friday night and almost snuck out of New Waverly with a win.
But thanks to junior point guard Brent Purvis making four out of five free throws at the end of the game, the Dogs came away with a 57-54 victory and solidified their third-place standing in District 23-2A. -
Hornet swimmers positioned well for today’s regional finals
All the Huntsville swimmers wanted to do and needed to do in the regional swimming meet was to put themselves in position to qualify for state. Well, consider that mission accomplished. In every event in which Huntsville qualified for in the Class 4A Region V swimming meet, no matter whether it was as an individual or in a relay, the Hornets and Lady Hornets finished among the top eight in the preliminaries Friday to advance to today’s finals at the Magnolia ISD Natatorium.
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Hornet golfers get out to strong start in Bastrop
Halfway into their latest tournament, the Hornets are set up well to win quite a bit of hardware. Following the first 18 holes in the Evans-Dodson Memorial golf tournament in Bastrop, the Huntsville boys are just four shots off the pace and have a pair of players within range from sitting atop the individual medalist leaderboard.
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Huntsville wrestlers gain experience at regional meet
The experience wasn’t as long as they would’ve hoped, but they’ll take it just the same. Competing in the regional meet in Katy, a pair of Huntsville wrestlers earned hard-fought, elusive wins, but fell in the consolation quarterfinals.
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Raring to go
They’re as ready as they’re going to be. With two weeks to prepare from their district meet, the Huntsville swimmers will take the next step toward qualifying for state today. Over the next two days, a group of Hornets and Lady Hornets will take part in the Class 4A Region V swimming meet at the Magnolia I.S.D. Natatorium with the preliminaries taking place today and the finals on Saturday.
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Next week’s playoff matchups all set
After spending countless hours in the gym, the hard work has paid off for both the girls basketball teams from Huntsville and New Waverly. Now the fun begins as the Class 4A and 2A girls basketball playoffs get going next week.
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OUTGUNNED: First-place Mavericks shoot down Sam Houston, run winning streak to 14
Texas-Arlington had an answer for every Sam Houston run Wednesday night on the way to a 75-63 victory over the Bearkats. It was the Mavericks’ 14th consecutive win and improved their Southland Conference record to 10-0.
The last team to start league action with such perfection was Sam Houston in 2010, a team which won the conference’s regular season as well as the postseason tournament championship. - More Sports Headlines
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