Friday, March 16, 2007
Upsets = Key Ingredient to Enjoyable March Madness
Yesterday during the intermission in between the afternoon and evening games (and when Easy took a cat nap) I wrote the following:
I feel like all of those conservative, scared, not really that college basketball savvy kind of guys are on cloud 9, at least momentarily. Why's that? Picking all of the favorites has never tasted sweeter. 8 games thus far, 0 upsets. That's right, not a single lower seed has won today. Hopefully that changes shortly, because without the Cinderella teams, March Madness lacks just a little bit of luster.
I think my statement was certainly verified last evening after watching VCU upset the Dukies via a last second shot. March Madness is like a drug, and after spending all day in withdrawal (no close games or upsets), I finally experienced euphoria as Coach K's squad made their earliest exit since 1996.
Screw my bracket, all I want is as many upsets and close games as possible. After the first eight games, we all experienced what a tournament could be like without not only thriller games, but even good ones...and it absolutely sucked.
Hopefully VCU's magic can rub off on some of the other mid-majors and lower seeded teams today, resulting in a better day of games...one filled with Madness!
I feel like all of those conservative, scared, not really that college basketball savvy kind of guys are on cloud 9, at least momentarily. Why's that? Picking all of the favorites has never tasted sweeter. 8 games thus far, 0 upsets. That's right, not a single lower seed has won today. Hopefully that changes shortly, because without the Cinderella teams, March Madness lacks just a little bit of luster.
I think my statement was certainly verified last evening after watching VCU upset the Dukies via a last second shot. March Madness is like a drug, and after spending all day in withdrawal (no close games or upsets), I finally experienced euphoria as Coach K's squad made their earliest exit since 1996.
Screw my bracket, all I want is as many upsets and close games as possible. After the first eight games, we all experienced what a tournament could be like without not only thriller games, but even good ones...and it absolutely sucked.
Hopefully VCU's magic can rub off on some of the other mid-majors and lower seeded teams today, resulting in a better day of games...one filled with Madness!
7 Comments:
This UNLV game isn't turning out to be an upset, but that's OK because I picked the Runnin' Rebels to advance to the Sweet 16. North Texas acted like they wanted to score an upset early, but it looks like Memphis has that game under control now.
with the lack of upsets, my bracket's shot!
i'm all for the upsets...as long as UF gets to dominate those high seeds.
-Darren @ SportsAgentBlog.com
Is Winthrop good enough for an upset? If not than TXAM-CC has to be good enough...they are this close.
Heck, it's not even so much about upsets for me, I'd just like to see some close games. I can probably count on one hand the numbers of games that have even seriously been undecided in the final minute. Offhand , VCU, Xavier, UNLV, Nevada... that's about it.
Even if there aren't any upsets, it would be great to have some close nail biter games
I'm with you on the upset issue. This has probably been the worst opening weekend in years. Though all the close games yesterday was certainly exciting.
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