Am I Really Writing About Basketball Again?

This is crazy. I cannot believe that Florida has been ousted from the tournament. And as if that wasn't bad enough, Ohio State, the overall number one in college basketball was eliminated yesterday. Of course, there is a reason that games are played. If they didn't play the games and simply decided the games by the way everyone got seeded, then there would be no reason to have a tournament and get millions of people to submit brackets to various companies and hope to predict perfection.

If you had seen my blog a few days ago, you would have seen the statistic about the amount of people that had predicted the many upsets of the first day.  Only 1700 people out of 6.5 million (in case you forgot or didn't want to look back).  I wonder how many of those are still perfect?

I know mine isn't.  But does that really matter?  I mean, think about it?  To me, I never pay for any of the bracket challenges that I join.  It's all for fun, right?  I like to find out just how good I can be without having watched an entire season of college basketball.  I'm sure some of the "purists" might find this to be a little annoying, but in all of the years that I have been selecting teams in a bracket format, I've managed only twice to predict the winner.  And yet, I still didn't really win.

I will say that all of these teams deserve some respect.  Each and every team that makes it to the tournament is the best in their league, going up against the best of the best.  Sometimes the better teams prevail and sometimes, like this year, it's the underdogs, the Cinderella teams, that get to stay at the dance longer.

I've always wondered why they call it "The Big Dance", but maybe they stay with the whole Cinderella theme and it's like those that shouldn't be there are there - at the "dance".  Who knows?

Whatever it is, it's fun to watch every year and hope that my bracket doesn't end up with a lot of red splotches (the mistakes) instead of the green (the winners).  Plus, it's a great distraction from the uselessness of Spring Training baseball until the actual season starts.


Until tomorrow.