KU Wins It

Apparently the Jayhawks are National Champions. I say apparently because I stopped watching at halftime. It was a good first half, I just had no chance of winning my office pool so I opted for sleep over TV. From what I've seen of the highlights and read in the recaps, it was a great game. That's how 2 of the best teams in the country should wrap up a great season of college basketball.

And with that, I'm temporarily closing up shop here. Feel free to check out my other blog where I rant about things that annoy me, or worse. See you back here next March.

Rock Chalk Jay Hawk

Lots of Kansas in the first half. Memphis needs to figure out a way to get Derrick Rose some open shots.

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That's how I faired this weekend. I have neither Kansas nor Memphis in the championship and have guaranteed myself another pathetic finish in my office pool.

There weren't any updates during the games because 1) I wasn't home or near a computer and 2) I was in no condition to type anything.

My kickball league hosted a bar crawl and let's just say that scorpion bowl races at Hong Kong at 6pm proved to be a less than brilliant idea.

Championship game tonight at 9:21 p.m. ET.

Aces Wild...

So all the #1 seeds advanced to the Final Four and I gotta admit, I'm excited. There's been a trend where a lower seed makes an incredible run through the tournament, pulling one exciting upset after another. Don't get me wrong, this is always fun to watch, fun that is, until the Final Four. At this stage of the game, the better team almost always wins. It's just what happens. So now, instead of the championship being little more than a formality, it will be a two-day tournament featuring unquestionably the four best teams in college basketball.

I still think free throws could kill Memphis, but that will be one physical game against UCLA. I picked UNC to win it all, but Kansas probably has other plans.

One of Maine's finest...

Better late than never, but gotta pay tribute to Bryant Barr, backup guard for Davidson. As a rule, anytime a fellow Mainer actually does something noteworthy, it's news. Helluva run by the Wildcats and a closer game against Kansas than I was expecting.

By the way...

I'm now ranked 43rd in my office pool. Moved up one spot.

Well then...

OK, OK...I know what all you readers are thinking (if I actually had any readers, that is)...How can you possibly sit through all of last weekend's tournament games with all of those upsets and not blog about it? Not even a single post. Well, despite the title of this blog and my track record of falling out of contention early in office pools year after year, I guess I still hope to win. Naturally, last weekend my brackets went straight to hell.

Seriously, TWO 12-13 matchups in second round? Are you kidding me? I've needed the past few days just to pull myself together and I still can't even put it all into words. I only correctly picked half of the Sweet 16, but luckily my Final Four is still intact.

The teams I have still playing: UNC, Tennessee, Louisville, Kansas, Memphis, Stanford, Texas and UCLA. Before this tournament got started, I felt like it had a weak group of #3 seeds in Louisville, Wisconsin, Stanford and Xavier. Wouldn't you know it...all four of these teams are still playing. I suck.

Games start tongiht at 7:10 pm ET.