The brackets are set. The conference championships are over. Every loss from this point forward sends your ass packing. Which is kinda dangerous, because with the exception of Louisville, Memphis and, ahem…the Duke Blue Devils, every single Team in the Top 10 caught it in the jaw.
#1 Carolina Tarheels? Peaced out to barely in the top 25 Florida State:
UConn Huskies? Upset in Sextuple Overtime by the Orange.
Pitt Caught an L a little too early, the only #1 seed to win all of the big games and lose all of the small games. Blake Griffin got so crossed up during that game with OK State that he ended up crossed over, cross eyed, and cross dressing.
I mean a LOT of squads lost this week. If this happens any time after Thursday morning, we’re going to be watching Mississippi State vs. VCU, and nobody wants that. Let me tell you as a long time fan of a squad that is always near a #1 seed but manages to lose their conference tourney a little too early. Going into a must win game right after coming off of a loss against an obviously lesser team? Nothing shakes your confidence like that.
Lake is setting up the Us Versus Them brackets this week. Lake and I will probably push a Duke a little too far in our brackets.
Pitt got a #1 seed, but they are clearly soft as hell. That said if they get past the cupcake teams, they might actually make some noise. Tennessee might make a real run at those cats, and the tournament committee is really trying to trip them up with that East Tennessee State who is famous for playing cats tight. They also set Memphis up with some potential killers to punish them for playing in a punk ass Conference USA. Maryland or Cal followed up by Mizzou? Meanwhile UCONN slides right into the Elite 8 with very little resistance.
These top teams need to Man Up, or were going to be watching the Cinderella tournament. This is the most unstable season in years. Big teams have lost to low level squads. No team has held #1 for more than two weeks in a row since Carolina was playing cupcakes back in December. That means that this might be the wildest bracket in a long, long time. If history is any indication, my bracket will usually be completely worthless by long about 4pm on Saturday. I’ve also got tickets for the Final Four in Detroit, I’ve got a fresh Duke shirt being delivered for the occasion. I hope to see my boys there…but secretly I just hope to see them still playing on the second weekend. We can’t tap out early again, can we? Go Duke. Man Up!
-Brock
The final four is in Detroit? Are you taking security?
And I say this as someone who was born and raised there. If you thought the crime was ridiculous in New Orleans when the All-star game was there, wait until you get to the D. Even the cops are grimey. If you get pulled over by a cop, and he looks like he could play LB or DE in the NFL, be prepared to get your ass whooped and to either hand over some cash, or go to jail. Enjoy!
so wheres the link to the official UVT bracket signup?
ps: cornell makes final four. haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Yo Lake and Brock,
Do you guys want to have a little friendly competition.
NPB vs. UVT, for a prize to be determined later?
hit me up nickelplatedbama(at)gmail(dot)com
Wait a second…
Pitt is soft but UCONN coasts to elite 8?
Are you out yo’ mind?
Last I checked, Pitt manhandled UCONN on 2 seperate occasions this year alone.
I’ve already set up a group if you guys want to battle. I’m offering up a t-shirt to my readers if their brackets do better than mine.
Let’s do this…
-Oliver