Tuesday, March 19, 2024
It's that time of year!
The NCAA basketball tournaments start this week, and (at least on the men's side) people are ready for upsets! That is in part because there were so many upsets in the league championships just concluded. In fact, of the four Number One seeds, only one (Connecticut) won its league's tournament, while Houston, Purdue, and UNC all fell. There was a lot of "bid stealing"-- that is, a situation where a league with a team which is a lock to get into the tournament, but another team wins the league play-off and the automatic bid, meaning that a league that normally only gets one team in will get two.
In my own bracket, I'm favoring those hot teams that won their league, including 10-seed (in the league play-offs) ACC champion NC State. After all, those are the teams that are good NOW, rather than in December. A lot changes...
The action gets hot and heavy on Thursday and Friday, right through the weekend....
