By Robby Wellington – Staff Writer
A few folks have asked me for my March Madness picks. Since there are always so many upsets and the more thought you put into your picks the worse you do, I’m trying to avoid making any predictions this year and filled out my brackets in less than five minutes.
There are really only two substantive pieces of advice that I can give:
1. The larger the pool, the more upsets you need to pick to win. This is why I don’t like small pools. In fact, picking numerous upsets is just plain silly in any pool with less than 15 people.
2. If you are somehow able to figure out whom everyone in your pool is picking, go ahead and pick the overlooked contender. I would rather be the only person to pick Texas A&M than one of 10 people to pick Florida. And yes, I admit, this is pretty shady.
Also some important rules for your office pool:
1. Don’t be the schmuck who fills out multiple brackets. Make your picks and stick with them.
2. Definitely don’t be the schmuck who brags about picking the big upset on one of your 10 brackets.
3. Don’t pick all No. 1 seeds in the Final Four. Picking three is cutting it close.
4. You are required to pick your school to win at least one game. 14-seeds and up are excused from this one.
5. Pick at least one 12-seed or higher in the first round and at least one 7+ seed to advance to the Sweet Sixteen.
All right, fine. Here are some predictions…
Fake Upset Pick – Old Dominion over Butler
Real Upset Pick – VCU over Duke
Huge Upset Pick – Oral Roberts over Washington St.
“Sleeper” – Texas Tech
Final Four “Sleeper” – Texas A&M (a cop out, I know)
National Champ – Kansas
And finally, some random thoughts from the world of television and bad music…
It happened a while back, but Shamrock’s defeat of John Brown in the final episode of The White Rapper Show was an absolute travesty, even by reality television standards.
Speaking of TWRS, I checked out the various rappers’ Myspace pages and was surprised to find that Dasit (the nerdy-looking guy eliminated week one) had far and away the best song (“Do My Thing”) of the bunch.
After being responsible for two of the worst songs in recent memory (My Humps and London Bridge), Fergie has completely redeemed herself with “Glamorous,” my favorite pop song since “Promiscuous Girl.”
The Sarah Silverman Show ended on a bit of a low note (trying to pass off the pilot episode as the season finale) but was still the funniest new program on television since The Office. Check it out.
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