You can click on it for a closer look- but so far so good for a Syracuse championship
As we begin another weekend of games I wanted to check how my bracket was doing in the TMG office pool. I’m currently in the lead as the sweet sixteen play off, managing to get three of the sixteen right. A lot of my fellow co-workers had Kansas to win it all and their surprise loss really hit the pool (and the rest of the nation) hard. So my “risky” entry rose to the top. I also have a Kansas bracket in the pool but it’s already sunk to the bottom of the pile.
After three years of bland, chalky tournaments we have a real exciting tournament on our hands. Did any of you predict:
The top seed in the tournament would lose to Northern Iowa?
Lowly Ivy Leauge champion Cornell beating both Temple and Wisconsin?
A total three double digit seeds in the sweet sixteen including Washington and St. Mary’s?
There have been a lot of surprises in this year’s tournament and there maybe more to come as things wrap up. What’s great about March Madness is that it’s something that everybody can get behind. Non-basketball fans fill out brackets as they are egged on by co-workers; short, action-packed games distract workers as they go into double over-time; but what is the best part of the tournament is the upsets.
The underdogs, the Cinderellas, these stories are the buzz of the tournament and prove that despite the NCAA’s best efforts you just don’t know what will happen next.
While Bracketologists will try and predict and throw math at their match-ups you just can’t count somebody out entirely. Much like life, nothing is predetermined entirely. Just because you think you are a 12 seed- doesn’t mean you can’t beat the 5 seed.
Never think that you can’t or that you won’t.
So how are you doing with your bracket?
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