March Madness!

It's the most wonderful time of the year! Yes March Madness is in full swing. If you don't have your brackets filled out shame on you! This is a time of the year when everyone shares a common interest, I was even talking to my physiology teacher about the brackets today, seriously, we talked for about 15 minutes about which teams are really playing well heading into the tournament. Turns out he's an Illinois grad, so of course he's had a great year with them only losing 1 game this whole year. This made for some interesting moments seeing as how I'm a diehard Michigan State fan, so of course since they're both in the Big Ten they are rivals. Anyways, I even ended up having to give him a score update on all the games that were played at 12 because he had been in class the whole day. Really the NCAA Men's (and women's) Basketball tournament is great. The athletes decide who the champion is, not some coaches, press writers and a few computers (ahem College Football wake-up! No one likes the BS, oops I mean BCS!). Really today there were 16 games, we got to see UW-Milwaukee take it to a bigger SEC school in Alabama, the #'1 played somewhat weak, the #2's played like, well a #2, the team that was probably the most impressive was, well no one was really impressive today. No buzzer beaters, only 2 games decided by less than 5 points. But the best thing is.....16 more games on Friday! 8 games on Saturday, and 8 games on Sunday! What can be better than that! No need to answer that. So of course I filled out 2 brackets in the House Pool, I am the Back-to-Back Champion....but I can honestly say that is going to end this year. I have no confidence in my picks. Last year, you knew UCONN was going to win, the year before, Kansas and Syracuse were safe bets. This year, well Illinois is weak down low and they are streaky, UNC has all the talent in the world but for some reason they can't put together a whole game, Washington is weak down low and Duke isn't deep enough. So there are reason against the #1 seeds. So of course I kept that in mind filling out my bracket. While filling out my bracket I kept those reasons in mind, but then I did the cardinal sin of bracketology, I let the fact that I'm a MSU fan into the decision making. Who has Michigan State (a #5 seed) in the final four! Yeah, that's me. Great pick. Well, I figure, they should beat Old Dominion (but this would be a classic 12-5 upset, so I'll be holding my breath) and they match-up really well with Syracuse, so that was a push for me, and I'm State fan so advantage State. This would lead to a match-up with Duke. Yes, Duke won earlier in Cameron, but State shot rotten at the FT line, and it was at Duke (that court is a 10 point advantage because of the tradition and that crowd). Also, this will be game #3 for both teams, and I think State is deeper. I think they'll be able to wear Duke out. Plus I have a bet with my ATR advisor Amy Labelle on this game. If State wins, she has to wear a State jersey for the whole day! HAHA! Of course...gulp, if State loses, I have to wear a Duke Jersey for the whole day. I can just see it, she's a life Duke fan so she could pull out some bizarre jersey like Steve Wojo, Bobby Hurley, Danny Ferry, or dare I say.....Christaen Laettner.....I would throw up if I had to wear that one. It's all in good fun though, so hopefully they get to play. Anyways, back to the brackets, I'm not quite sure who will pull through this year, I have UNC, along with about 5 other people. The other popular pick is of course Illinois. The Sports Guy, Mr. Simmons really hasn't told us who he figures will be cutting down the nets, or maybe I just missed it. If you don't know who the Sports Guy is, go here... http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/simmons/index. If I could have his job, I'd gladly take it for a day. I wouldn't be able to pull off his interesting articles, which would anger the masses of sports fans that religiously go to his page, but nonetheless it would be a great gig. For the Ncaa Tournament he has decided to do a running diary. His running diaries are classic. The Super Bowl Diary was great, the Sox Series Diary was amazing and this is turning out the same way. This idea has even moved on to other people, for instance, our trip to my friend James' wedding in Minneapolis was captured by Lee Richards Trip Diary, which was priceless.

Besides that, my life has been pretty dull since my last update. Traveled with the B-ball team to Saginaw, Lake State, and Ferris State. I really enjoy the trips, seriously, free hotel room, free meals, hanging out with everyone, and best of all...FREE BASKETBALL. How can you go wrong with that. Seriously. Some people hate traveling with the teams, but I really like the experience and enjoy getting to know people from the other training staffs. Although these trips caused me to fall behind in a few classes, but I'm all caught up now.

Now that I've pointlessly blabbed for a good while, I'll go back to studying for my final Physiology Make-up exam. This Blog proves people will find just about anything to do to distract themselves from studying, it is now 3:22a.m., exam -6 hours and 38 minutes......
Peace out and Keep it real, Live Long