Like many of you out there this is one of my favorite times of the year and because of that there will most certainly be many non-music related posts in the coming weeks. The brackets are out and tournament time is here and I couldn’t be happier (except see below). Only moments after the selection show, here are a few of my observations:
Illinois (my team) got screwed at a #4 seed, but they can beat Air Force and Washington with ease. Michigan State is as tough a #6 seed as there is in the tourney, and they will make the final 8. As much as I hate the Kansas Jayhawks, they are (in my opinion) the team to beat out of Oakland. And where the heck is Missouri State? How do you have an RPI of 21 and get left out of the tournament in favor of teams like Air Force? And what is Tennessee doing as a #2 seed? C’mon.
If you are a blogger and want in on the action head over to Analog Giant and submit your bracket.
Oh yeah, Jay Bilas is right on when he says that Michigan and Cincinnati both got jobbed. I’m not a fan of either of those teams, but the tournament would be better with them in.
I know we’re competing against each other and sh*t in the AG Bracket, but hey, I’ll give ya one nugget of advice for free: MSU ain’t making the elite 8 this year. They’ll have to work hard to get past GMU, and then UNC in Round 2??
Good night Maurice Ager, sorry, thanks fer playing.
PS. I have no idea how I’m gonna pick based on these brackets. Hot matchups galore this year. West Virginia vs. Southern Illinois, California vs. NC State, Gonzaga vs. Xavier…. consider me glued to the TV on thursday & friday.
yesterday was Jim’s 2nd favorite day of the year….football starting day being his first. He couldn’t be more excited right now.
hey eric, glad you dig the blog. ive been hearing a lot about your lately, and i definitely like it!
Hey, love the site, recently started reading regularly. I happen to go to UIllinois so I’m also a little PO’d about the #4, but I guess it’s retribution for our scheduling last tournie. Anyways, I run burningoak.com, another music blog, and there are a handful of us so far doing our brackets on ESPN.com. I’ve got more info about it at the link below, but suffice to say it’s a music bloggers pool. I figured you might be interested, there isn’t any monetary costs but we do have some interesting stakes so far…. take a look.
http://www.burningoak.com/music-bloggers-ncaa-pool/