This year, thanks in part to a nagging viral illness, I was able to watch every NCAA 1st and 2nd round game that CBS had to offer, spread out over four days. And while there were no big surprises, it was fun to put the brain on hold, listen to tunes on the iPod (282 songs out of a possible 27,351, to be precise), luxuriate in the HD, and root root root.
Unlike years past, there were no grand upsets in the first two rounds, unless you count Michigan getting to the 2nd round as an upset. There's also no clear dominant team, which makes for interesting Sweet 16 match-ups. Of course, Michigan State (as a #2 seed) should be killin' like penicillin, but that's not the way it's gone down in their first two games. Watching State play has been painful, like someone putting chewing gum in your pubes and sloooooowly pulling each gooey chunk away from your skin. There are times when they look like the most inept collection of dopes and dupes you’ve ever seen, when you wonder if they’ll ever score a basket again in 2009. And yet, somehow, they keep on winning. Cliché as it is, if their big guns ever play up to their full potential for the duration of the tourney, they could cut down the nets.
But for some reason, my basketball gut just won’t believe it until I see Sparty touching the trophy.
Unlike years past, there were no grand upsets in the first two rounds, unless you count Michigan getting to the 2nd round as an upset. There's also no clear dominant team, which makes for interesting Sweet 16 match-ups. Of course, Michigan State (as a #2 seed) should be killin' like penicillin, but that's not the way it's gone down in their first two games. Watching State play has been painful, like someone putting chewing gum in your pubes and sloooooowly pulling each gooey chunk away from your skin. There are times when they look like the most inept collection of dopes and dupes you’ve ever seen, when you wonder if they’ll ever score a basket again in 2009. And yet, somehow, they keep on winning. Cliché as it is, if their big guns ever play up to their full potential for the duration of the tourney, they could cut down the nets.
But for some reason, my basketball gut just won’t believe it until I see Sparty touching the trophy.
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