By Jeremy Brunner
Thank goodness. For a second there I thought we were bound for one of those boring final fours. You know, the kind where the two(perceived) best teams meet for the title, like North Carolina over Illinois a few years ago.
And then we got stuck with an unprecedented four number one seeds in the final four. But then Memphis and Kansas injected some life into the tourney with big wins over everybody's two picks to take the title. Seriously, how many people in your work bracket picked anybody other than UNC and UCLA? From every thing I saw, about 75% of all entries picked one of those two teams. Lame city.
Next year, please do something different. Look at the three seeds. Pick the one with the best record from a major(BCS) conference to go all the way. Then you can grab the three other one seeds so you'll still score well. Just do it. You'll thank me later. You may not win, but at least you'll improve your karma, plus you weren't going to win with UNC over UCLA anyways, thanks to the 20 other people in the pool who had the same thing(only they didn't have that gut-feeling you did about Cornell over Stanford).
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