Somethings Bruin
Like millions of Americans, I have now filled out my official tournament bracket and am ready to have all of the money I may have invested in office pools gone with the wind.
If you really want to see it, here it is.
Some highlights:
If you really want to see it, here it is.
Some highlights:
- I like UCLA to win the whole thing.
- I picked Memphis as the first one seed out.
- Typical of my picking, Pittsburgh is the lowest seed (4) that I have in the final eight.
- I have very little confidence in the Big Ten. In fact, I have no Big Ten teams in the final eight.
- I have Drake going to the final 16, finally being stopped by UCLA.
- I have Kansas going out in the final eight to Georgetown.
- I have Butler upsetting Tennessee in the second round
- I have USC upsetting Wisconsin in the second round
- I have George Mason upsetting Notre Dame in the first round.
- I have Purdue upsetting Xavier in the second round
- I have Davidson upsetting Gonzaga in the first round
- I have Kentucky upsetting Marquette in the first round
- I have Arizona upsetting West Virginia in the first round
- I have Georgia going out in the first round. But what a fantastic story that was over the weekend. Of course, they were helped by the fact that none of the heavyweights could make it to the finals (Tennessee, Vandy).
- Georgia cost Va. Tech (or Kansas State depending on whose opinion you read) a spot in the tournament. I have to think they were the last one on the bubble when it burst.
- I was surprised Kentucky made it at all. But, you can't have an NCAA tournament without Kentucky, can you?
- I was surprised Indiana was seeded 8th. I thought of them more as a sixth seed. It's almost like the committee wanted to impose their own sanctions on IU.
- When was the last time the Big ten only got four teams in the NCAA tournament. That's shocking! I don't think the SEC deserved six teams and I'm sort of wondering about Baylor.
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