Oh boy has it been a while since I did one of these. Lucky for all of you my boredom has reached a peak and I need something to do everyday between classes. As LL Cool J once said though ... "Don't Call it a Comeback".
Anyhow I'm sure anyone who is anybody filled out a college basketball bracket. Whether for an office pool, your own personal monetary gain, or just for the hell of it. Mine is the latter. For your viewing pleasure I have included a link to my "most successful" (read as "abysmal") bracket i filled out. I hope you laugh as hard as I have:
http://games.espn.go.com/tcmen/en/entry?... But thus is the world of March Madness. It's name never disappoints. Everyone looks like a genius before the tournament starts. Inevitably that tapers off into "What was I thinking?", or "Who the hell is Richmond?", and " No Officer it's not a domestic disturbance, I was just watching the college basketball tournament." Particularly this year. For the casual fan, it's always fun to watch Cinderella put on the glass slipper and waltz through to the final four. They can't fathom the feelings of the Kansas Alumnus, who just wigged out in his living room and threw his full beer at the wall because VCU just cost him $500. Relax bud ... the rest of the country got it wrong too.
So we're left with UCONN (who i picked by the way), Butler (pretty impressive, getting consecutive Final Fours), Kentucky (probably had a decent neutral following consider the possibility, but not actually plug them into their bracket), and Viginia Commonwealth University (I'm sure die hard students w/ season tickets at VCU didn't even have them getting past of the Sweet 16). TWO PEOPLE PICKED THAT. How is that even possible? Did they do it with their eyes closed? Did they ask the stupid World Cup Octopus? Or did they call the psychic hotline and talk to Miss Cleo ... "Don't pick da Duke Mon, dey be losin in da Sweet Sixteen", or however she talks. Doesn't f***ing matter, they're obviously smarter than the rest of us.
In conclusion, it is blatantly obvious that whether or not you watch college basketball ALL SEASON and do all the research before confidently filling out the bracket, odds are you're going to be dead wrong on some level. What brings viewership is the excitement and the hope that YOUR team can run the proverbial gauntlet to the finals and cut down the nets. Meanwhile some die hard Pitt fan threw his coffee table through his TV. Well good job donkey, now you need a new TV. And I bet Hulk smashing it across the room didn't make you feel any better.
And oh yeah .... UCONN over Kentucky, VCU over Butler, and UCONN wins the whole shebang. But I'm sure you've learned this March not to put any faith in that prediction ...