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March 12, 2007
Oh: It's on...: part deux
Some thoughts on the bracket:
1. UNC drew the toughest bracket. No doubt about that. I may be crying like Nancy Kerrigan ("WHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYY?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!") in saying it, but it doesn't make it any less true. We've got four really dangerous teams in our path, including Marquette or Michigan State (pick your poison), Texas (a 4 seed?!?! In any other year they'd be a 2, no doubt about that), Georgetown and, at every stage, UNC. If UNC emerges from this bracket, they will be the national champion. Bank on it (but remember the big "If" at the start of the prediction).
2. Ohio State drew the easiest bracket, and by far. I can't remember such a poof bracket. This is probably some sort of sick and twisted handicap based on graduation rates (the NCAA's reasoning being that their kids better shine at basketball since they have no fall-back position).
3. Worst draw for a lower seed team: Kentucky. Yikes! With Tubby under pressure, they will have a hard time even getting into the field of 32.
4. First round upsets watch for: 14 seed Oral Roberts over 3 seed Washington State; 13 seed Albany over 4 seed Virgina; 10 seed Gonzaga over 7 seed Indiana; 10 seed Georgia Tech over 7 seed UNLV.
5. Placing my reputation further out on a limb, the 1st 1 seed to fall: Florida, to 4 seed Maryland.
Looking ahead for UNC: Wright leaves for the NBA, Tyler stays and UNC wins a national championship next year. And anyway...
Believe in the green light: the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter-tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Posted by dag at March 12, 2007 8:30 PM