Brackets
Specifically, any reference to the men's or women's NCAA Tournament bracket. Or mine.
Love the bracket.
Check that. Love THE bracket. You know, the ultimate way to categorize and argue anything and everything? Love it.
Lowercase is the original, the NCAA tournament. Uppercase is for everything else, much like the guys at “The Final Four of Everything” figured out. Best action movie? Seed ‘em and throw ‘em in a bracket. Most overrated candy bar? Bracket ‘em.
It’s the best way to have a little bit of March extend into summer without actually having games to focus on. (Or so I think. You might have other stuff to do.)
Still, the best brackets usually involve sports. Dunno if it’s the argumentative aspect or the natural tendency to match up sports topics and see how it all comes out, but sports remains the go-to.
Cue the guys at Buster Sports.
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Nobody’s perfect.
Keep that in mind when checking your NCAA tournament brackets the next few week. When you shake your head over missing that upset “you knew would happen” don’t fret. When that 12 seed makes a run to the Sweet 16, just keep this in mind.
The odds of picking a perfect bracket are 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 to 1.
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President Obama isn’t much different from me, and a good number of other hoops fans – at least when it comes to filling out his NCAA tournament bracket.
He picks a few upsets, but relies on the top seeds when it comes to choosing a Final Four. And his champ? Also no stunner.
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Moments after Pitt’s loss to Providence Tuesday, my buddy Marty calls.
“If you had to pick one team, right now, to win the NCAA tournament, who would it be?”
I think about it, then settle on North Carolina. Without seeing any matchups, I’ll stick with their offense.
“OK,” he says, clearly ready for that answer. “If I took Carolina and UConn and gave you the other 64 teams, would you take that bet?”
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