234. That’s my current rank in the in the 66537+ field of SI.com’s March Madness game.
I tell you now because, for the two games today, I picked upsets so my ranking looks to plummet considerably. Plus, I have a number 2 seed, UCLA, winning it all. Not likely.
Still fun, though.
Everything I knew about college basketball before I filled out the bracket I learned from watching 10 minutes of Mike and Mike in the Morning. Specifically, I learned that Syracuse should have been in the tourney, but wasn’t. So, I filled out the bracket using the seeds and gut feelings.
I only filled out the bracket because I play Powerball. You see, the ad for the bracket game on si.com said I could win one meeeeeellion dollars. I figured, since I’ll throw a hard-earned dollar at the unimaginable-odds lottery every week, I might as well throw 10 minutes at the chance for a large chunck-o-change. So I filled out the bracket in the hopes that I might fluke my way into getting every pick correct. I don’t know the odds on that, but the potential reward was worth the time.
Then the first game played. I got it wrong. It took 2 1/2 hours for Texas Tech to ruin my dreams of $25,000 per year for 40 years.
So root for my continued success. Or curse my ingenious luck. Either way, I’m #234. There’s NO way you can knock me down from THIS pedestal.
I’m king of the world!