A running ‘blogentary’ of the NCAA Men’s National Championship

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I’m on the couch and it’s 6:59 PM Mountain Time.   The NCAA men’s basketball championship game is set to start its broadcast on CBS in exactly one minute.  Computer on lap, baby is sleeping, dogs are fed, and I am ready to roll.  Here is my running blog-commentary, or, blogentary, of the … [Read more...]

March Madness: A very weird Final Four coming up

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I think my ten-week-old baby could have done a better job picking the winners on this year's NCAA men's basketball tournament bracket.  Or, maybe my dogs should have somehow been involved with the selections.  College basketball is filled with so much parity now that anyone can beat anyone on any … [Read more...]

March Madness: The Final Four is not the Championship

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This just in, when you make it to the Final Four you still have at least two games left in order to claim the championship.  However, the sports world over the course of the last several decades has held the Final Four up on a pedestal, as if it's the end of the road.  CBS has titled the … [Read more...]

March Madness: I can’t say I was wrong about the Big East

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I'll say it - I called it.  I wrote a blog on Valentine's Day expressing my disagreement with experts' and analysts' opinions that the Big East is the best conference in men's college basketball.  I specifically called out Pitt for their ever-underachieving spirit in the wake of being rewarded … [Read more...]

March Madness: UCLA just lost and I’m now totally deflated

Tyler Honeycutt

Oh damnit.  I put UCLA in the Final Four.  I said in my blog yesterday that I was fully aware of the craziness of the pick.  They were a #7 seed and didn't even have that great of a year, for UCLA at least.  To be honest, I hadn't even really spent much time watching them at all this year.  … [Read more...]

NCAA Basketball: The Madness has Already Begun

Gary Johnson, Brandon Ubel, Lance Jeter

Wow, what a ridiculous week of college basketball.  Thirteen ranked teams lost. The #1 team in the nation went down by a solid margin to an unranked team.  The seeding field was blown to bits - and this, this was all just the women. The men also had their fair share of chaos in the last seven … [Read more...]