I don’t know why I bother filling these things out every year. It’s always an exercise in futility. And what’s frustrating about it, is that I can always sniff out the “sure upset” that everyone’s always taking, but then my own upset never comes through. Last season, it was Old Dominion over Butler (the only reason I remember this is because I’ve got that particular sportscast on my demo tape). Everyone liked ODM, and it never happened.

This year, there’s two of those 5/12 matchups that everybody was drooling over.  One of them was Temple over Michigan State. That didn’t happen. To a lesser extent, the other one (yet to come tonight) is George Mason over Notre Dame. In both of the brackets I filled out, I didn’t bite on these upsets… so far, I’m 1 for 1. So where did things go horribly wrong?

I had Georgia in my 16. D’oh. (My reasoning? I thought they would be “the story” of the first two rounds. I could already see the big featurette on Outside the Lines.)

(And hey, how about those Golden Flashes!)