as I was last night when AZ got tickets to the sweet sixteen and got to see both UNC & KU win. Sure we had a round here in Boston as well but Syracuse & Ohio State? I’m asleep already.
Just a brief note to update on the status of the pool. AZ & VK are tied for first, my bracket & le momma are tied for 3rd. Maija’s pro-dog-mascot strategy failed miserably this year with the first round failure of UConn.
I also want to clarify something: yes, BO & I picked UNC to win this tournament. And yes that means I, at some point, expected them to beat KU tomorrow. But NO OF COURSE I am not cheering for UNC in the next game. Screw my bracket, Jayhawks to the final four!
Edit to add: Nate points out the Lady Jayhawks are playing their own sweet sixteen game against Tennessee right now.
And yet you called Ebs jerky for leaving KU out of the winners circle… oh the shame!
Here’s the difference – I am capable of rational judgements that let me (with a heavy heart) make an economic decision that leads me to pick my team to lose (obviously, and thankfully, I was wrong). Eben is too young for such rational decision-making, and should have no problems picking based solely on fun or fandom or colors or whatever. But there’s no reason in the WHOLE WIDE WORLD he should be picking Missouri. NONE! Unless maybe he really just likes tigers but if that were the case, why would he pick Memphis to get upset by St. Louis in the first round?! And why doesn’t he even OWN a stuffed tiger? The only reasonably explanation is that it is YOU ma’am are using the young one as a cover to pick what YOUR OWN SUBCONSCIOUS MIND thinks might would have happened. You’re using his picks as a hedge, then calling me a hypocrite! FOR SHAME!! The sin is not leaving Kansas out of the winner’s circle, the sin is putting MISSOURI in, the lowest of the low Big XII abandoners. Slave staters fall!
I had forgotten – Nate was at last year’s Elite Eight.
Elite eight busted my bracket! But it was a fun time seeing both rounds. :)