A Dearth Of Upsets, A Healthy Bracket
Friday morning near the water cooler, the kitchen or the breakfast table won’t be easy. Your co-worker, your roommate or your significant other who hasn’t watched a minute of college hoops all season yet picked chalk across the board is leading the bracket pool.
So what is a diehard March Madness fan to do when the favorites keep winning and upsets keep failing?
Deflect. Deflect the way Anthony Davis does when he’s asked about that uni-brow.
The refs ruined UNC Asheville’s chance at history and your eternal basking in correctly predicting the first sixteen over one-seed victory.
Gonzaga wasn’t daunted by playing in West Virginia’s backyard, only the fear of staying overnight on and being forced down a river a la Deliverance.
Connecticut, a nine-seed and the defending champion, looked indifferent against Iowa State because Kemba Walker makes his home in Charlotte now and Jim Calhoun is already scouting Florida retirement properties.
Only Virginia Commonwealth (at the time of this writing) provided a surprise result. And how shocking really is that? A 12-seed is a near guarantee to knock off 5-seed’s in at least one regional and Shaka Smart may have been coaching for the Illinois job.
Colorado, the lone wolf left for the Pac 12, leads UNLV but is it wise to bet against a team from Vegas earning a few questionable calls before all checks have been cashed?
Bracket creeps are precisely the reason this college football fan doesn’t want to see an expanded (16 or 32 team) playoff in December and January as well. It devalues the regular season, allowing a legion of hoops aficionados to dust off their laptops and begin following the sport on the first day of the NCAA Tournament.
Is more interest a bad thing?
Of course not, but does a true champion finish ninth in their regular season conference standings then pull off eleven consecutive wins while ignoring the prior three months?
Like the broken bracket, the only way to answer that is with the right spin.
Deflect.
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