Overheard in the paranoid recesses of my own mind:
"Wow, Matt, did you even follow your own bracket advice, or does it just suck? You're in dead last!"
So what went wrong? Well, several things:
FIRST ROUND
Matt's pick: (6) Oklahoma over (11) Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Actual score: Wisc.-Milw. 82, Oklahoma 74
It's mostly the same Wisconsin-Milwaukee team that made a run to the Sweet 16 last year. So it's not like this was a huge surprise. We saw them coming. And that's the point. How does a senior-dominated team like Oklahoma not see them coming? If it was a younger squad, like Carolina or Kansas, I could understand. But not the veteran Sooners. Oy.
Matt's pick: (5) Syracuse over (12) Texas A&M
Actual score: A&M 66, Syracuse 58
Did Syracuse just shoot its load winning the Big East tournament just to get into the dance? Possibly. But what killed the Orange this year was the same thing that killed them last year against Vermont: Gerry McNamara couldn't shoot into the ocean.
He scored all of two points a year after going 4 for 18 in that overtime loss to the Catamounts.
Matt's pick: (6) Michigan State over (11) George Mason
Actual score: George Mason 75, Michigan St. 65
Apparently the Big Ten blows. (But pat yourself on the back if you had Georgetown getting out of the first weekend.)
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