Congrats to the Retrievers on a truly impressive team victory. It was a tournament of ups and downs. Unless you’re UMBC. In that case it was never down. Here’s to the Retrievers and what can only be referred to as a dominating performance in this year’s tournament. Yes, the winningest team in Luwak history has…

You know the thing in horror movies when you’re like, “the monster is dead!” and then you’re like, “wait but there’s still 30 minutes left,” and then you hear creepy music and then the monster jumps out from behind a tree? That’s UMBC in this tournament. They just. Won’t. Go. Away. (I mean that in…

The Final Four is set! We went from a Sweet 16 full of obvious picks to a group of four teams that seems as unlikely as Hamilton winning the Luwak Cup this year. (zing!) Here we stand with no Duke, no UNC, no Kentucky, no Gonzaga… and a whole lot of guys who will be…

After two rounds of relatively uneventful basketball, we saw some incredible games these past couple of days and maybe spent a few minutes screaming “WHY????” at our TVs. I see you, Heels fans. As we head into the round of 8, our tournament is starting to get more interesting. INDIVIDUAL STANDINGS It was a good…

Enough already. I’ve received hundreds if not thousands of messages from players pleading for a Luwak update as we await the Sweet 16 games. Far be it from me to deny the people what they want. While the first two rounds of basketball were a bit of a yawn in terms of upsets, in the…

An exciting weekend of basketball is in the books and we’re on to the Sweet 16! Duke managed to outlast UCF, Tennessee survived a rally by Iowa and UNC looked like a true no. 1 in its win over Washington. A lot of chalk on this year’s bracket, with the exception of No. 12 Oregon,…

Let’s take a minute to applaud the work put in today by the Colgate Raiders, who took a talented UT team to the wire. An incredible effort from the team from the Chenango Valley. Now to the lowbrow commentary on the rest of the tournament… Lots of close calls at the top, but most of…

And we’re off! The 2019 Battle of the Luwak is officially underway. Yes, that’s right, the bracket tournament that has been referred to as “the pinnacle of human competition,” “history’s most intellectually engaging game,” and “a ridiculous waste of time” has begun. Thanks for being a part of this 22-year tradition of utter madness. A…