Chalk

- I think all the wind we got tonight was the sigh of relief coming from Badger Nation. That shouldn't have happened.

- Did I really pick Arizona in all three of my brackets?

- I'm having trouble remembering a year where so many of the 8/9 and 10/7 games were total coin flips. I mean, they usually are anyway just by their nature, but five of the eight games wwere decided by one late run and one went to overtime.

- So few upsets. Meh. And yes, I'm still mad about Illinois not closing out an overrated Virginia Tech squad. VT was probably a 7 (and Duke an 8), but there were so many teams with 9-11 losses that they had to go somewhere.

- Villanova really missed not having Nardi at 100 percent.

- Completely Unrelated Aside: What, exactly, is "getting your grown man on?" I'm hopelessly out of the loop.

- Anyone notice how the NCAA secretly went back to "East", "South", "Midwest" and "West" without making a big deal out of it? They also ended up bringing back the "ghost game" (6:31 p.m. entry), which was Oregon/Miami (Ohio) and sounded like it might have been the best game of the day. Plus the Ducks have an Aaron Brooks who's actually worth a damn.