Wisconsin Badgers are the death of me

After a mediocre performance in the World Cup pool this summer, I very nearly won the NCAA tournament pool with the usual group of Cairo sports fans.

But even though eight teams remain, and even though Mike C. is only 1 point ahead of me for the lead, he’s already locked it up. He and I each have only one team still alive, and it’s the same team: Kansas. So, I can’t make up any further ground on him.

Mike C. had an Ohio State-Pitt final. I went out on a limb with Ohio State-Wisconsin (showing my Big Ten bias) and Wisconsin just didn’t get it done.

I should have trusted my gut feeling that Arizona would upset Duke, but I lost my nerve in the end and caved in to Duke’s reputation.

And probably like many people, I told myself: Butler can’t possibly do it two years in a row, can they? Well, maybe they can.

No one had Virginia Commonwealth advancing very far, unless it was a chicken pecking screens randomly after receiving electric shocks. So I won’t hold that one against myself.