It’s Tourney Time baby
It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Yeah, that’s right …. forget Christmas, this is the most wonderful time of the year. It’s excusable to sluff off at work on Thursdays and Fridays. It’s completely reasonable to discuss sports and let paperwork slide for a few moments. In fact, it’s completely okay to slide a fiver under the table to your coworker in hopes of winning the office prize. It’s the one time of the year that people turn their heads and enjoy what time of the year that it is.
While we may not ALL partake in the glory that is the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament you cannot deny the power it holds over this country; its popularity undoubtedly sprung due in part to Vegas and the interest of a few extra bucks.
I helped a buddy at work this year with his bracket and right now after the first weekend Adam and I sit in 3rd place - only 1 point out of first (and it’s my fault for forgetting to fill in one game, arrrrgh!). Nevertheless, we’re sitting pretty, all of our Elite Eight picks are still alive.
Our bracket started off pretty good. We hit 25 out of the opening 32 games but the second round bit us some going 10 for 16. If we push through the round of 16 pretty, look out. Our Elite 8 looks like this:
- UNC versus Tennessee in the East
- Kansas versus Wisconsin in the Midwest
- Memphis versus Texas in the South
- UCLA versus Xavier in the West
Our Final Four stacks up:
- Tennessee versus Kansas
- Texas versus UCLA
The Championship Game will feature
- Tennessee versus UCLA
And the winner will be ……..
We’ll see what happens but this is one of the things I absolutely love about the NCAA tournament … we all have a chance at looking like geniuses at the end of the tourney. Even if you are the bosses daughter who thinks UNC wears a pretty shade of blue but you’ll put Davidson in the Final Four because that red would look fantastic on your lips.
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