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The 2011-12 Northern Illinois Sports Beat Weekly Basketball Pick'em is just as good as
the football pick'ems, but are more challenging because the season consists of more
games, and more twists - including the prediction of entire tournaments! But still, these
contests are always FUN and challenging.

The contest will begin on Sunday, November 13, and end on the final week of the Class
3A/4A regular season (February 25).

How it Works:  Most weeks there will be ten basketball games for you to pick the
winner of. One game will be a tiebreaker game, which will be used to determine the
weekly winner. The tiebreaker is the total points scored by both teams in the game.

Some weeks will consist of picking the winner of a certain tournament. The tiebreaker is
the number of points scored in the tournament by the winning team.


A Week-by-Week structure of the contest is as follows:
NISB Weekly Basketball
Challenge
Week 1 (Games on Nov. 25-26):  Pick the winner of 5 Turkey Tournaments (two points each). Deadline 11/21 8:00 AM
Week 2 (Dec. 2-3): 10-game pick'em. Deadline 12/2 7:00 PM
Week 3 (Dec. 9-10):  8-game pick'em, and winner of West Carroll/Forreston Tournaments. Deadline 12/9 7:00 PM
Week 4 (Dec. 16-17): 10-game pick'em. Deadline 12/16 7:00 PM
Week 5 (Dec. 23-24): Pick the winner of 5 Christmas Tournaments (two points each). Deadline 12/26 8:00 AM
Week 6 (Dec. 30-31):  No pick'em this week
Week 7 (Jan. 6-7) : 10-game pick'em. Deadline 1/6 7:00 PM
Week 8 (Jan. 13-14) : 9-game pick'em, and winner of Hononegah MLK Tournament. Deadline 1/13 7:00 PM
Week 9 (Jan. 20-21):  10-game pick'em. Deadline 1/20 7:00 PM
Week 10 (Jan. 27-28):  9-game pick'em, and winner of Little 10 Conference Tournament. Deadline 1/27 7:00 PM
Week 11 (Feb. 3-4):  10-game pick'em. Deadline 2/3 7:00 PM
Week 12 (Feb. 10-11):  10-game pick'em. Deadline 2/10 7:00 PM
Week 13 (Feb. 17-18): 10-game pick'em of Class 1A/2A final regular season games. Deadline 2/17 7:00 PM
Week 14 (Feb. 24-25): 10-game pick'em of Class 3A/4A final regular season games. Deadline 2/24 7:00 PM
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Those Who Know
Northern Illinois
High School Sports

Know about NISB!
2011 Weekly Basketball Challenge Final Leaderboard:

thundernation09 - 77
#35 - 72
hobie - 72
morrisonfan - 68
2hot - 65
RF57 - 63
soboalum99 - 61
ktownhogs - 59
dewdrop - 37
metroeast - 35
icehog4 - 25
Mr. High School Guru - 17
ging - 17
awliksit - 9
illini66 - 6
donnie - 6
NISB Weekly
Basketball Challenge
Contest Winners:

2008 - Bigshot85
2011 - Hobie