So, you thought your bracket was irreparably busted? Mine blew up in the first round when my selected champion – the Fightin’ Izzos, went down in flames to the Middle Tennessee Whoevers. But there’s good news.
- If you thought your bracket was bad, remember that the so-called experts of Sports Illustrated picked 6 of 16 correctly. Most of you did better than the experts!
- There’s a SECOND CHANCE bracket at ESPN. Doug set it up for us and you still have time to get in for a Sweet Sixteen on busted bracket challenge. Here is the link. SBC Voices Second Chance Bracket. The password is the same as it was before…sbcvoices…go and fill out your bracket.
Last year’s champion (Adam in NC) has passed me for the lead in the big bracket, but there’s some bad news for the gloating fans of the ACC. They will actually have to play a team with a higher seed than 9 this weekend. That’s right. When the ACC tells you “We’ve got 6 teams in the Sweet Sixteen” realize that not a single one of those teams beat a team above a 9 seed to get there. Some of them almost lost to 9, 11, 14 seeds. So, this weekend will be the real test.
Go sign up and join our second chance bracket challenge.
David: You have evidently forgotten how oriented the ACC is to basketball and how on any day the sorriest team can show up and beat the snot out of the number one seed. I have been watching ACC teams for over 40 years (My wife usually sends me out of the room because I get to excited). Wouldn’t it be funny, if two of the ACC teams (like Chapel Hill and Duke) wound up in the last game for the championship.
I will take this opportunity to point out that the reason they have not played higher seeds yet – is because THEY ARE THE HIGHER SEEDS!
Something each of them earned by means of doing well over the course of the season and specifically because they successfully navigated a grueling conference season.
When a conference is far and away better than most of the others the high seedings tend to happen.
Go Heels!
Go Canes!
I failed to get into the first bracket, but I’m in this one. Going full homer mode… BOOMER!
Acc didn’t just lose 2 today, they got blown out 2x
The Miami loss to Villanova was shockingly similar to Iowa’s loss to Villanova.
Funny. The ACC set a record for the most teams in the Sweet Sixteen. So two are out. So what?
Dr. J.,
Its sad to watch but…
Some people whose teams are never realistically in the hunt for the basketball national championship just like to revel in the temporary downfall of ACC powerhouses.
Dear Taarheel: I told David he had forgotten how basketball devoted the ACC is. Now three of the teams have made it to the Elite Eight. Who knows what they will do? Only the Lord.
whoa, is it four?
Last 10 national champs by conference:
ACC – 4
SEC – 3
AMERICAN – 2
Big 12 – 1
You have to go back to 1999/2000 season to find a Big 10 national champ.