[NFBofSC] Fwd: Accessible NCAA Tournament Bracket 2021

[Tiffiny Mitchell]

Tiffiny

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> From: Lawrence Carter <yallowdogg at bellsouth.net>
> Date: March 16, 2021 at 9:45:39 AM EDT
> To: Lawrence Carter <yallowdogg at bellsouth.net>
> Subject: FW: Accessible NCAA Tournament Bracket 2021
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> Lawrence Carter
> President Raleigh/Wake
> Council of the Blind nccbinfo.org
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> From: Terrill Thompson <terrill.thompson at gmail.com> 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 2:42 AM
> To: undisclosed-recipients:
> Subject: Accessible NCAA Tournament Bracket 2021
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> March Madness is back! 
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> You're receiving this email because you - at some point in the past - have created an account on the Accessible NCAA Tournament website. I just wanted to let you know that the 2021 bracket is now live. 
> https://terrillthompson.com/ncaa
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> Your login info (email and password) are the same as before. To login, just select "Login" from the main menu. If you've forgotten your password, select "Forgot your password?" from the Login page. 
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> To fill out a bracket after logging in, select "Pool" from the main menu, then select "Make your Picks" from the available options.  Like before, the available options also include "Add a private group" and "Join a private group". Note that groups are deleted from year to year, so if you want to create a private group, you'll have to create a new one. Fortunately that's super easy to do - just select "Add a private group" from the available options, then follow the prompts. After you've created a private group, share the group name and password with anyone you'd like to invite. 
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> In the two years since we last enjoyed March Madness together, a few things have happened: 
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> 1. The data source I had relied on for tournament information since 2012 no longer exists, so I had to scramble to find a new way to do this. That required a lot of changes under the hood, and it's highly likely there will be bugs. Let me know if you encounter any. And thanks for your patience! 
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> 2.  Pat Slick (aka Slicker), a dear friend of mine from my Kansas days and one of the original participants in the Accessible Bracket Pool, passed away.  That was just a few days after the 2019 tournament.  My last text message from him was the night of the National Championship, when he asked "Who is your pick for tonight? I picked Texas Tech by eight." I intended to memorialize him during last year's tournament, but of course, that never happened. So I'm doing it this year. I did an analysis of the teams he picked in past years, and completed a bracket on his behalf, informed by those results. Good luck, Slicker! 
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> As you probably know, the Tournament itself will be unusual this year. All games are being played in Indianapolis, and positive COVID-19 tests during the tournament will result in teams having to forfeit. If that happens before Tuesday at 6pm Eastern, they will be replaced by teams from the standby list. So, the bracket you fill out today may have entirely different teams tomorrow.  Expect the unexpected!  
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> Round 1 games tip off on Friday just after noon Eastern, so you have until then to fill out your brackets.  
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> Enjoy, and good luck! 
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> Terrill 
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