I don't like to brag much, but at one point this weekend in my family's bracket challenge on ESPN, my five bracket entires held the bottom five spots in the lineup of fourteen, which I assume is why no one reads this blog.
While I missed a ton of basketball this weekend, I did get to see much of my favorite game: West Virginia over Duke. I hate Duke and it's always fun to see them fail, though perhaps it would have been more fun had Preakness University done the honors in the first round. I don't really care for Bob Huggins, either, except that now I think he deserves a 200-foot statue and a place in the Hall of Fame.
To be fair, these program schools are a little odd. Beating Duke this year isn't like beating Jason Williams/Shane Battier Duke, and it's nothing like beating Trajan Langdon/Elton Brand Duke. In retrospect the Blue Devils were a pretty good team, but not really championship material. The odd thing about watching the West Virginia game was that I kept expecting Duke to make some kind of run, and they simply couldn't. How far the mighty have fallen, at least for now, and how sweet it is.
Also exciting is Georgetown's loss today to Davidson. Next weekend I have to catch me some Stephen Curry. Georgetown's loss left my brackets in tatters, too, but who freaking cares? The whole point of the opening weekend is watching high-seeded teams fall flat on their face, and if you get some great individual performances, too, that's all the better.
And finally, I guess a No. 6 should lose to a No. 3, but I'm still pleased that Oklahoma managed to fall short by so much (by 30 points to Louisville, a small town near my home). I absolutely can't stand Oklahoma, and I hate their basketball team as much as their football team, which is rare for me. The University of Utah is probably the only other school to inspire that kind of feeling from me. I mean I don't like Nebraska's hoops team, but I don't have to hear about them, either.
What did y'all think of the weekend?
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All of DC is reeling over the G-town loss . . . I thought they were overrated, but I thought they would last at least until the Sweet Sixteen. I wonder if this means Nike will be pulling their John Thompson/John Thompson III ads with the tagline: "There are no Cinderellas."
And watching Oklahoma get obliterated in any sport is worth the price of admission.
Overall, the weekend was solid, although I expect Davidson and Villanova to run their course next weekend. And North Carolina looked absolutely dominant, albeit against the likes of the Smoky Hill Institute of Technology.
Even I saw that "No Cinderellas" ad fifty times.
I'm pulling for UNC, of course, but yeah, it seemed like they and Kansas got the easy half of the bracket for sure.