FINISH HIM! FINISH HIM!

If you thought yesterday’s liveblogging was bad. Wait ’till you see what I have in store today! (Damn leprechauns are promising to shut this one down around the dinner hour, if not before.) As was the case yesterday, a much better effort at Deadspin:

I haven’t checked the third bracket (ESPN) yet, but with 13-3 on the work bracket and 15-1 (I was Grizzled!) in the Yahoo! bracket through yesterday, I’d say I’m pretty happy. Focusing on the work bracket, Ohio State and Arizona (with significant help from Wisconsin) have wins for me today, I’m really hoping Bucknell holds on, but not as much as Iowa needs to spend the last 14 seconds not f’ing around and winning this game.

2:37pm – Dear Iowa… Kiss my ass.

Could Northwestern (State) possibly have run that last possession any more perfectly wrong? A two ties it for ya, and they throw up a very closely guarded three, save a long rebound by their fingernails and nail the winner on a shot that makes the Tennessee winner look like a lay-up. One loss on the day, and it’s an Elite Eight team for me. Blech.

-Bucknell is trying their best to do an Iowa impersonation on me. MAKE YOUR DAMN FREE THROWS!

Ah, chaos ensues and Bucknell can put it away at the line.

1:48am – Yeah, the leprechauns got me, little bastards. Some exciting games, though! Kansas pisses away another Elite Eight team for me, but 26-6 for the first round and all Final Four teams left, I’m doin’ all right. And really, really need to find my pillow.