Saturday, March 18, 2006

True and Complete Madness

Okay so in recent years the NCAA Tournament has routinely been in the month of March. Thus has been rightly termed March Madness because of all the different sports going through their own tournament based on their different divisions, etc. However, this year, at least for Division I Mens Basketball, the term March Madness has a bit of a different meaning. This is the first year in a long time that I have seen really low ranked teams beating pretty higher randked teams. This is something that I am finding rather hard to grasp. Then there was this game yesterday night, the ultimate upset. Sixth-seeded Michigan State University becomes defeated by eleventh-seeded George Mason University. I truly thought that MSU could make it past the first round against a team that not many people have ever heard of. Then upon getting the scores this morning, I have come across another interesting upset. Bradley University ranked 13th, upset the University of Kansas ranked 4th. Kansas of all colleges... who not that long ago actually won the NCAA Tourney. I suppose it is still somewhat well and good. At least UCLA and University of Kentucky have not lost. I have no one else to pull for if they are gone. Though I have been wanred by my friend Steph to not root for UCLA because they beat Belmont, the school where her friend Beth (recent newlywed) went to college. I am not a huge Duke fan, though I will not deny their great talent. They just have so much spot light on them at most every NCAA tournament that I am just kind of bored with seeing the ads, newspaper articles, etc., that look like pieces of Duke threw-up everywhere.
So all in all, it has been a madening first round. I am hoping that Kentucky and/or UCLA will be able to pull something off. I suppose tis time to rearrange for the 3rd time my prediction bracket. Typically this need not to be done.

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