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Back from a few days of R&R and ready to start one of my favorite times of the year. March Madness is when people, whether they are sports fans or not, come out and act like it for a few weeks.
Filling out a bracket for some of us involves some time and stat comparison while others choose teams because of their team colors or mascot names. Actually, I’ve known quite a few who have gone that route and whipped all of us.
Here’s my NCAA Bracket. Take a look, compare, agree-disagree. Have fun with it. If I’m doing well in it, you’ll certainly hear about it on Local 2 Sports.
It’s really easy for folks in our parts to clear the rowdy road to Reliant for the Aggies and Longhorns. But for a few minutes, take your team colors off and look at both clubs. The records look impressive but break it down and do you really see either team making it past the Sweet 16?
I think the Aggies win but struggle over a sloppy Florida State team Thursday and then bow out in round 2 against a very good Notre Dame club. Even if the Ags pull off the huge upset, I don’t see them matching up well with Purdue.
The Longhorns are young and a hard team to figure out. Will the fellas show up or will they have issues dealing with the big spotlight that the tournament brings? Texas should get past a good Oakland team then I have them knocking off Arizona before running into Duke. I’d love to see them beat Coach K’s team but he’s Coach K and his team is more talented, experienced and deeper than Barnes’ group.
For Texas, it will be another good season but still not what Barnes envisions for his program.
Overall, I don’t think Syracuse is getting enough respect. The Orangemen play great defense, are athletic and can score. They survived the Big East and are always tournament ready. I have them upsetting a young Ohio State team in the Elite 8 but losing to Duke in the National Semi-Finals.
The other side of the bracket, I really like Kansas and Purdue to advance to the Elite 8 with Kansas moving on to Reliant and a date with Florida in the National Semi-Finals. That SE Region I like Gonzaga to advance to the Sweet 16.
So I’ll go with Kansas to win it all over Syracuse in my ‘official” bracket.
In my other bracket (for another pool) I’m going with Final Four of : Ohio St, UCONN, Kansas, Florida. UCONN winning title over Kansas.
Have fun and good luck!
