NCAA Tournament 2009

The first day of the NCAA Basketball Tournament. A very good day. As a fan of basketball, I love to watch basketball...and there is NO better day to watch basketball than the opening Thursday and Friday of the Tourney (32 games in 2 days - no better sporting event...well, except maybe when the Trojans are playing for the NC).

I love to pick a bracket...however, I am a huge fan of the upset. They are difficult to find...for example the fact that a 12 seed has upset a 5 seed in 21 of the past 25 seasons...so it is a virtual lock...hello Western Kentucky (they are no stranger to the 12 upset of 5 - since they a 12 last year beat Drake the 5), BUT who on earth can decide which 12 seed is going to do the deed.

I picked Illinois to take care of business...before I knew their starting point guard was injured...but Western Kentucky took them out. Despite needing Illinois to win for my bracket...I was pulling for Western Kentucky because my love of the upset super cedes my bracket!

[Side note: thanks to UCLA for beating VCU - VCU was the trendy upset pick this year...by the way I think I have grown a lot over the years...in years past there was no way that I could have picked UCLA to win anything (insert any number of insulting comments)...let alone have two of my buddies be UCLA fans, or graduates or whatever they are...]

Oh, I forgot to mention how absurd it is that Barack Obama has the time to show us "Barack"etology! I think he has a lot of other issues that need his attention. Issues that are a lot more important than the NCAA tournament. I don't know, like, companies taking tax payers money and paying out $100s of millions of dollars in bonuses or, unemployment rates that are soaring through the roof or, the slumping dollar or, the crumbling world economies (I guess I could have said economy), etc...

Good luck Trojans...is it possible that 3 out of 4 10 seeds could win in the same season?