A Weekend of Madness

So far this weekend I've seen highs and lows. The Cornell Big Red won as I predicted, and the Siena Saints lost to level out my upset picks... Several games I could not foresee upsets in surprised me, Old Dominion over Notre Dame and Ohio over Georgetown both crushed me!

Then Saturday happened. I was on a high after the Diamond Hogs won the SEC opener at LSU Friday night, when the bottom fell out. LSU came from four runs down in the bottom of the 7th to win 8-7 over the Hogs. Villanova decided it would be a good idea to let Omar Samhan dominate them and the two-seed went home crying (I felt a tear too).

Then Northern Iowa snatched my soul...

I have an estimated 15 brackets out there in cyber-space, and in all but one of them I have Kansas cutting down the nets. Tonight I have one bracket left. Northern Iowa used nine three-pointers to keep the Jayhawks at bay. As Ali Farokhmanesh dropped in his fourth three of the night I thought I heard the sound of brackets crackling in the fire. Maybe that was just mine.

So now I'm disappointed. The only thing that could make this worse would be for someone like Duke to win it all. I'm going to be rooting for my sleeper West Virginia, and my Cinderella Cornell.

Hopefully tomorrow the Hogs will win the series they should've swept, the Dukies will go down in flames, West Virginia and Syracuse will cruise, and I'll hit a million threes in the Sunday afternoon pick up games in Clarksville.

With my luck, I wouldn't bet on any of those though!