Once again, the “pick the teams you hate” theory works in the NCAA tournament. I just lost one of my finalists when Duke went down (like the prom queen JJ Redick is), but I’m cool with it. I’d guess that 85-plus percent of people in the office pool (which I lead coming into the night) had Duke in the finals. Fortunately, my winner is still alive in Villanova. On the not-so-fortunate side, UCLA has yet to wake up against Gonzaga, which would result in not only my third final four team going down, but a trendy pick to the office numbskulls in the Zags moving on.
(If you’re reading this, MJD, I know how you feel about discussing brackets, but consider this my response to the chick dunk post. *grin* )
Looks like the UCLA pick turned out to be a good one. If only I hadn’t picked Alabama to knock off the Zags.
On the Duke game, I’m still good with Big Baby doing is thing. Though my wife and I agreed the best part of that game was the close up of Coach K’s Daughter and Son-in-law. Clearly the two were not on speaking terms at that moment, and when they came back to to them later she was gone. A the joy of being at a sporting event with ones wife.