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March 13, 2007
Initial Bracket
Here are my first thoughts on the way the dance will play out (click on the bracket image for larger):
Sentiment guided two of my choices, but the rest is based on the coldest and most cutting-edge sort of science. Trust me.
Update: Several of the sickest kind of junkie bracketologists you'll ever run across have had a look at mine, and I have peered into the abyss that is their selections. A few interesting reactions:
1. They seem to admire my upset prediction for Maryland-Florida, in much the same way that many Native American cultures saw psychotics as wise men. One suggested my deification if this turns out to be correct.
2. One intriguing upset prediction their choices have suggested to me is Duke over UCLA. It could happen...In the last few years Duke has arguably underperformed in the Big Dance, but it all seemed so terribly predictable in the end: with a short bench and great exertion in the ACC tournament, they ran low on gas and high on hubris by the time of the tournament. This year they've had a lot of opportunity to rest and regroup and have gotten very little respect. They have something to prove, and tricks yet up their sleeve, methinks.
3. As a Great Dane, I made the emotional choice in picking Albany over Virgina. However, some of these cold number crunchers reached the same conclusion.
4. No one seems to believe that more than two of the 1 seeds will see the Final Four.
Posted by dag at March 13, 2007 4:43 PM