Upset Stomach
And It's Not All The Corned Beef & Cabbage I Ate On ThursdayFour upsets today in eight games have taken a machete to my brackets. No, more like a chainsaw. Wake Forest, another of my Final Four: gone. (Though, it was a hell of a game. It's a small consolation, but at least they didn't get annihilated.)
The worst part is . . . I was SO CLOSE to predicting most of them. I know, I know, hindsight's 20/20 and everyone always says "Oh, I SWEAR I was going to do that!" when they goof up.
But I'm serious. I knew Gonzaga was going to bite it, but picked the wrong team to ace them. I already sang the praises of UW-Milwaukee but didn't think to pencil them in the Sweet Sixteen even though I knew Boston College was overrated (hell, Notre Dame beat them). I've never felt confident in Wake Forest's ability to survive out of the Albuquerque regional, but didn't consider any of the other contenders as much better choices. (In the ESPN and AOL contests, where you're allowed to submit multiple brackets, I hedged my bets and threw Georgia Tech and Louisville in there in other scenarios.) As for Oklahoma . . . well, I should have seen that coming, since normally, good football schools don't go far in the NCAA tournament.
So, now that the Mongol hordes have looted and pillaged my brackets and set them afire, I've pinned almost all my hopes on Duke winning it all, or a slew of other upsets. If Bucknell wins the Syracuse regional, that would be awesome.
Go Bison!
UPDATE: It appears forces larger than anything mere mortals can comprehend had a hand in tonight's events. For when the Blog Of The Year puts a hex on you, you're not easily unhexed.
Edited 4:35 AM to add the update.
posted by Marsh @ 2:50 AM
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