Unlike the obvious attention that BS pays to college hoops, I know nigh on nothing. I have lost all interest in basketball in the last 5-8 years, and I am not really dying to get it back. It is certainly among the more exciting sports, but I think it feels too much like a sugar rush to me - i prefer my sports like my novels: slow, complex, and full of interweaving machinations. Basketball is surely complex and interweaving, but i don't know, it just doesn't grab me anymore.
That being said, the NCAA tournament is among the greatest sporting events in existence. Without fail, it is exciting and unpredictable every year. Strange things happen to players and fans alike. And what makes it unique amongst all other sporting events with the exception of perhaps the Olympics is that it has a great draw amongst non-fans.
Take, for example, me. I filled out a bracket knowing very little other than what I gleaned from BS in his well worded and voluminous posts on the subject, the random ESPN headline, and rudimentary knowledge of some of the college divisions. In hindsight, i stuck mostly to higher seeds, but made several upset predictions and when in doubt went with a Pac-10 team.
Turns out I'm in first place in my office pool! Not only that, but I'm just behind the guy who has the most potential points in the pool as well. Enough to make me pay attention this weekend, to say the least!
Go Bruins!
1 comment:
Sweet...first place! I'm telling you, that Texas pick is going to put you over the top.
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