- One of Barney's exes is sabotaging his love life, but he doesn't know who. So he makes a NCAA Basketball Tournament-style bracket to figure out which women he wronged the worst.
- Of late, Barney has been trying to pick up women as usual, and as usual things are initially going well with his scam pick-ups, but after he steps away for a few second he returns for the woman to give him a harsh slap across the face. He finds out what's going on when seen with Barney, Lily is approached by a woman telling her that Barney is a lying cheat that will say and do whatever just to get into her pants. As the woman Lily describes could be a number of the women that Barney has slept with through lies and deceit, Barney has to figure out who she is. To narrow the list down, Barney is inspired by Ted and Marshall's love of NCAA basketball and decides to have his own version of March Madness, with the top sixty-four prospects pairing off in individual matches - with the gang deciding which girl is the winner in each pairing - until the final girl is determined. But they are only able to narrow things down to the final four. As only Lily knows what the girl looks like, she accompanies Barney on the final quest. Lily has her own motives for helping Barney with this task. And Robin thinks she has a better plan for tracking down the mysterious woman, with herself in the starring role.—Huggo
- Future Ted tells his kids, that back when they were younger, Uncle Marshall and Ted were really into college basketball.
Marshall and Ted are working on filling in the brackets for the college basketball playoff games when the girls come into the living room and ask what they are doing. Lily asks where he got the chalkboard and Marshall tells her that he found it, but Marshall recounts in his head that they borrowed the chalkboard from Lily's classroom without permission. Barney walks in and tells them that the team that they bet on just lost. Barney tells everyone that he went to the hardware store to meet women (single, recently single, recently divorced, recently widowed, and lesbians tend to go there alone). He flirts with a woman in the store and when Barney returns after grabbing something, she slaps him. This also happened at the pet store (women looking for pets after a breakup but finding Barney instead) and the museum (where people go to appreciate art before losing their vision); every time he returns from getting water, he gets slapped. Barney can't figure out what is going on.
The next night, Barney and Lily meet up at the bar, and when Barney walks off to get something, a girl approaches Lily and warns her that Barney will say anything to have sex with her. Lily is upset and tells Barney, but they can't find the girl, and Barney can't figure out who she is. Barney tries to think about who it could be and goes through hundreds of girls in his mind, getting overwhelmed.
Barney complains to everyone, and Ted suggests that he looks at the list of girls he has been with. Barney brings everyone to see the scrapbook he has made, and Lily can't identify the girl. Barney gets an idea that he put the girls on the basketball bracket chart that Marshall and Ted have, and he suggests that they discuss the girls and figure out who it is. No one wants to do it, but Barney brought beer. They all argue about who has the most reason to dislike him and sabotage him. After several hours, they narrow it down to the final four and decide to contact all the women. Lily and Barney first visit Meg, the girl that he had sex with in the first apartment that Marshall and Lily bought (she was later arrested for trespassing, bit a cop, and spent 8 days in jail). Barney wants to hide from her, but Lily makes him apologize to her. When Meg sees them, she runs up to Barney and kisses him. When Lily separates them, she tells Barney that she isn't the one, but he still needs to apologize to her. He quickly walks off in the other direction. The next girl, Anna, believed Barney was Ted and got lied to. She tells him that she created a website detailing Ted's exploit. Barney stands on a table and announces to the whole restaurant that Ted Mosby is a jerk and tells everyone to visit the corresponding website. That website went on to get 400,000 hits
The next girl is Kate, whom Barney told he had a twin brother named Larney and had sex with her twice. She immediately attacks him, and Lily makes sure to capture a picture. The next, and last girl is Holly. Barney recalls the story of leaving her in the woods by herself, and a bear chased her. Lily scolds him, telling him it was the worst thing he has ever done. Holly answers the door and introduces her fiance, Mark. They invite Barney and Lily into the house for coffee. Barney says that was the worst Fourth of July, but Mark reminds Holly that they started dating in June (which means Holly cheated on Mark).
Lily gripes at Barney when they get back to the apartment that he never apologized to any of the women. Barney doesn't think that is bad, but what he does think is bad is that he still doesn't know who the woman is. Robin suggests that they set her up, and Robin will act as the girl Barney is trying to seduce. Robin sets up the scene where Lily will be at the jukebox, the guys will be at the booth having a normal conversation, and Robin will walk up and get seduced by Barney. Robin asks what he says to women to get them to have sex with him, and he tells her. She gets a little intrigued. When Robin sees someone coming in, Barney walks off to the bathroom, and the girl approaches Robin. Barney returns from the bathroom and looks at the bracket to find the girl, and he doesn't recognize her at all. When she walks off, Barney intercepts her and apologizes for not recognizing her. Lily approaches and tells him that she isn't the girl (she was a friend from work), and the girl walks away. Lily takes a picture and names it "Barney's Redemption."
Barney writes in his blog on the computer: "Sometimes we search for one thing but discover another. Even though I didn't find the mystery girl...I did find out something very important about myself...I'm awesome." A girl interrupts him and asks him to come back to bed with her since he must go to outer space the next day
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