Inside The Park Blog: Sunday March 18, 2007
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by user InsideTheParkFantasy
So the first weekend of the NCAA Tourney is over. What an enjoyable weekend it was well except the fact that I didn’t really get to watch much of the games because I was running around the West Coast. I did catch the only game that I had to see, which was WSU vs. Vanderbilt. We (WSU) did not win which sucks, we should have we are a better team just made some critical errors down the stretch. It was a good Double OT thriller though.
I think the main shocker from today’s games was that USC beat Texas, a lot of people probably predicted to go deep because of Durant. I had them winning this one and losing to UNC but they did remind me of Syracuse when they won it with ‘Melo because they were young and had a superstar (Durant). As far as my bracket goes, I am looking good. I still have all of my Elite 8 teams in it. My Final Four picks are Florida, Kansas, UNC and Texas A&M then I have Kansas beating UNC in the Championship. I know what you are thinking, jeez Erik you picked like all the number one seeds. Well I picked who I felt was going to win, it turned out they were mostly the number 1 seeds. I feel after those teams there is not too much competition but within the top group there is no dominant team. Weird year for me I guess, I normally have more upsets but this year I didn’t pick too many. Which is nice because there hasn’t been as many as in the past, specifically no 12 seed beat a 5 seed. I seem to always pick 2 12s beating 2 5s but this year that did not pay off.
Next weekend I am interested in seeing how USC holds up against UNC, if Butler can hold up against Florida (remember Butler won the preseason NIT so they know how to get it done), I think Southern Illinois will give Kansas a run for their money but hopefully not win since I picked Kansas.
Since I have been gone all week I haven’t been paying attention to anything in baseball, which is no fun. Tomorrow I have my draft for our newly founded keeper league. I don’t feel prepared but I think I will spend sometime tonight and tomorrow researching more for it. I feel good about first couple rounds it is the later rounds where I need to improve and find some good sleepers. I’ll let you know how the draft goes and who I get then you can call me an idiot for some of my picks.
Quick side notes having nothing to do with sports:
Over break (last week) I spent 40 hours in a car, majority of that was me driving.
I feel good about all the interviews I had.
I was introduced to a CEO of a company and told he was a University of Washington grad, so I asked how they were doing in the Tourney knowing they weren’t in any. That is how much of a die hard Cougar I am, if anyone doubted.
Even though I only went out one night in Vegas it was nuts and fun as hell. It was 90 degrees down there which was nice compared to ’s 32 degrees.
Well I’m tired; want to take nap but gots a lot to do.
-Erik
