March Madness

If VCU & Kentucky both win on Saturday (Kentucky is favored by 2 over UConn, while VCU is a 2.5pt underdog to Butler), my girlfriend will win the first place prize (large flat screen television) at the March Madness Pool within her apartment complex. (It was also free to join). Even if this does not happen, she is guaranteed to place in the top 5 for entire complex and most importantly, she placed in the top 5% overall for the 6 million entries placed on ESPN beating experts across the country. If you’re a cynic, like myself, then you think these so-called “experts” are a bunch of schmucks (Yiddish for fools/idiot) to begin with, but this is way besides the point. A girl who has absolutely no knowledge of the game of basketball, its rules, or any one player on any team, picked games better than 95% of the nation. Not only this, but this is her first time ever filling out a bracket. This is so illogical, it’s logical. It’s logical because it goes to show you that when March Madness comes around you never know what the hell is going to happen and your knowledge of teams can strongly misguide you.

Yes this is a small sampling (1) and probably the results probably won’t be the same next time she fills out a bracket. But who is betting against her? Not I.