RETRO: final four blues

Oh yeah, isn't it crazy that we could have the same two teams in both the football and basketball college championship games during the same academic year? One school would be wild enough. If Florida gets it, and they look the best of these four, not only will they be the first team to repeat since the Hill-Laettner Dukies, and just one of a very few, I think they'll be the first school to finish 1st in football and hoops in the same year.

But, as I said before the season, repeating is very tough and reserved for only the greatest of great teams. Even Ewing and Jordan could not win twice (of course, they went up against each other). I don't see Florida as that great. I went with Ohio State, and they've been winning just barely so far. I'm not sold on them. Florida should, but I'll stay with the Buckeyes, who at least can say right now that they did finish both regular seasons in football and basketball ranked number one.

And if UCLA wins it all, I might have to move...

RETRO: stupid texas

I don't know what the Sixers are doing. Sure, they might be only a few games out of the playoffs. But they're also only a few games out of second to last place. DAMMIT! START LOSING! Boston is winning more and Milwaukee will too now that they dumped Terry "I coached two teams? Really?" Stotts. What will be better for the team - getting destroyed in the first round of the playoffs and getting a middling pick that will keep the team at a medicore state, or losing big and getting a potential franchise player? I WONDER! Getting a prime forward in the draft is way more than they can do now. Quit already.

This has been a very wacky NCAA tournament in its complete absence if wackiness. No really huge upsets, and even UNLV and Vandy aren't so surprising given their overrated opponenets. When was the last time NONE of the 4 or 5 seeds lost in the first round? I can't even remember it. This sets up some intriguing matchups, not including Texas and the player everyone wants to see. As Bill Simmons has been saying all season long, Rick Barnes wasted the only year he's ever gonna get from Durant. Too bad. He also ruined my one bracket, and probably the whole thing, since I'm guessing enough people have my other teams making it and either UNC or Georgetown. You're dead to me, Rick.

I still say Ohio State over Kansas, but that scare with Xavier worries me. Florida didn't look great, Texas A &M almost lost, and the Pitt-UCLA matchup is going to make me laugh in some way or another. We'll have to see how.

RETRO: i guess buckeyes are still it

My lack of NCAA preparedness is killing me. I think this is the least certain I have been heading into any March since Arkansas beat Duke. I have no idea what to do with my bracket. I like all the obvious teams. I don't have any dark horses. This is very, very strange.

The solution: I usually go crazy with upsets that never pan out, so playing it safe this year might just work. Or not.

Ohio State over Kansas. Does that work? Are they even in the right brackets?