The Madness

Well it's official I have no idea what I'm talking about. Let's review some of the great insight I gave last week.

1) Avoid the over hyped underdogs. Well the most over hyped underdogs Winthrop and Virginia Commonwealth actually lived up to the hype and won in the first round.

2) Avoid high seeded mid majors. Butler and Southern Illinois fell into that category and it looks like they're still playing

3) Always pick a 12 seed to win over a 5 seed. This happened every year since like the beginning of time except this year all four five seeds prevailed with three of them (Tennessee, Butler, USC) making the sweet sixteen.

4) When in doubt pick the team with the best player: Thanks a lot Durant.

With that being said I still have 7 of 8 of my elite eight teams alive and they all have a good shot at winning their games.

Everyone seems to think that the game of the tournament so far is Xavier versus Ohio State but personally I liked the Vandy, Washington State game. Both were exciting but Ohio State took control over Xavier in overtime whereas the Vandy game was tight to the end and even featured a rare whitewash. (Bill Simmons reference where there are five white guys on the court at one time)

Still in denial that Texas lost. They got it handed to them. Complete domination. Somewhere Matt Lienart and Reggie Bush must be smiling.

Game I'm looking forward to the most for the sweet sixteen is the Tennessee, Ohio State game. Ohio State's got Oden and Conley but they go through spurts where they have trouble scoring and we all know from that first round game that Tennessee can score more than Gene Simmons. Should no doubt be interesting.

Game I'm looking forward to the least is the Pitt, UCLA game. First one to 40 wins. That game will be ugly. It's going to be like that time I went into that Macro midterm way under prepared because I spent the entire weekend watching college basketball. Yup that was my Monday.

Overall the tournament hasn't been great but it's still the greatest sporting event in the world. Nothing even comes close. Time to rest up for another weekend and let's hope the Gators can continue to pull through.