The first weekend of the tourney is done and I’m sitting in a comfortable 3rd place in the pool I’m in. Plus, I’m the only one left with all my Final Four teams left. I’ve only lost Maryland and Kentucky from my Elite Eight. I’m able to live with the Kentucky loss since so many people had them in the Final Four, plus it was the most exciting game of the first two rounds.
I think every year back to the first tourneys that I remember. Back before the internet and continuous bottom line. Every year on Selection Sunday I would scour the house for graph paper to make my brackets in time so that I was ready to fill them in. They always said them so fast that I couldn’t write them all down. Then when the games started and they would only occasionally update the score, instead of the constant updates, and I would miss some and my Mom was supposed to catch them for me but she would drop the ball. Now its all about the picks and thinking that since you followed the NCAA pretty well this year the picks should be no problem. Then you lose a Final Four team or two the first weekend and want to kill yourself. I can’t really say which time I like better, but the first one doesn’t happen anymore.
I’ve got my Spring Break pictures formatted and just got Evan’s so I will have to format his then work on the write up, shouldn’t be much longer now.