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Well its Bracket time…I mean Tournament time and it is quite possibly one of my favorite times of the year. Do we need a bracket? Also, just to help you in filling out your bracket I thought I would give you some interesting tidbits so you can sound like a genius at work or your local watering hole.
My personal favorite is using your intuition and taking your gut feeling rather than sifting through hours and hours of data. But, I also like to rank highly the hot hands entering the tournament, specifically conference champions. These champs, especially the major-conference champs (Wisconsin (Yeah Wisconsin!), Pittsburgh, North Carolina, UCLA, Kansas,), have proved they're battle tested and ready for the Big Dance. Likewise, highly seeded teams that bowed out of their conference tourneys prematurely (Duke, Tennessee, and Xavier) aren't as likely to go deep into the NCAA tourney.
Anyways, enough about the big name schools; the best way to impress is to know the lil tidbits the announcers will reveal during the game. If you can beat them to the punch your peeps will be impressed.
Well, here is some quick tidbits on those small schools you don’t know about:
Davidson (26-6), Southern Conference. The Wildcats can play some ball. Lost to North Carolina by 4, Duke by 5, UCLA by 12, and NC State by 1. That's nothing to sneeze at, I mean, it's Davidson. Everybody knows they have Dell Curry's kid, Stephen. That's all you need to know. This kid can shoot.. Plus, these kids are smart. Davidson, aka "The Princeton of the south," produced a number of Governors, and even a President...Woody Wilson.
Butler (29-3), Horizon. Butler (located in Indy) isn't an unknown, rather the best of the "little guys"but they return pretty much the entire team from last years Sweet 16 squad which lost to Florida...limiting the Gators to their lowest point total of the tournament. That's impressive. As for the school, they play in Hinkle fieldhouse. The same barn where "Hoosiers" was filmed and where that actual game (Milan over Muncie Central) was played. Plus I can’t believe nobody guessed the actor featured below was Jimmy Chittwood….that would have been my guess
Lastly,I must say I have actually kind of enjoyed Bob Knight on ESPN, I thought he would be a Jackass….but he makes all the other announcers look like jackasses cause he is the only one that actually makes sense in his astute observations
Well, I am glad I could help contribute to the estimated nearly $4 billion loss employers are expected to realize during the next week as employee productivity hits it all time lowest during March Madness.
1 comments:
Here is my perspective on the bouncing ball sport. Its watered down!!! College and the NBA are both suffering. The good leave college too early, yet when they get to the NBA, they are too raw and lack discipline (with some exceptions). I miss the 80 - 90's. That was real basketball. This crap today is just that, CRAP! Anyway, sorry for being such a downer. Later, Keith.
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