Watching two games at once (take 5)

The good news is the upset is back. The bad news is, I'm sure most peoples' brackets look like mince meat right now. I know my bracket does, and it's all because of a guy named Curry. Looking back, I should have stuck with my own advice, and took in all the info the bracket gives me. Had I, I might have chosen Davidson to make it to the sweet 16. Instead I went with my gut, and now have a pitiful bracket. The weekend started well, getting West Virginia and 'Nova into the sweet 16, but once Georgetown choked, I was finished. And again, the the aciton this weekend proved there isn't much of a difference between the Big conferences and everyone else.

So now what? Well for starters, if you are a non-BCS fan, be happy, because this is 2006 lite. Davidson, Western Kentucky and Xavier are all off to the Sweet 16. Almost the same as in 2006 when Gonzaga, Wichita St, George Mason and Bradley all moved on. Hopefully one of those three teams this year crash the Elite 8 party, and realistically Davidson and Xavier could get to the Final 4 with another two solid outings. My advice to people who have their brackets in the trash can this morning, is to sit back and enjoy the show. Following the 2007 tourney, I thought the upset was a thing of the past, but it's been given new life, and doesn't it make the NCAA tourney just that much more fun to watch?

A fun little game you can play over the course of this week. If you read on any websites or hear any of the "experts" on TV talking how good Western Kentucky, Davidson, and 'Nova are, see if you can find that person's bracket predictions, and how far they have those two teams going. If any of them have those teams going one and done, realize they are full of Hershey stains.

I won't be giving a revised prediction, because I don't have an ego to feed. "Experts" who give you revised predictions are just trying to stroke their ego, and make you think they still know more than you do. Face it, if these guys were as smart as they like to tell people, they would have seen at least Davidson coming. With a few days off before the sweet 16 round of games, I'll focus my attention to other things in sports, but will get back to the tourney once the action takes place.