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| Posted on March 19, 2015 at 10:25 AM |
Well it’s time to see
what you are made of. The annual ritual
of filling out the brackets is completed.
As a home grown Hoosier you know I believe that basketball is THE only
sport. All the other sports are just to entertain
us until basketball season starts. I am
also very methodical when it comes down to going through my brackets. I will clue you in on just how I do it. Feel free to use these rules for your own
compilation. I have no licenses on my
technique and I am more than happy to share with those that are less in tune to
the sport of round ball. Now let’s just
scan down the list and see who we have. Texas Southern, now if
the school doesn’t know that Texas is in the South and have to remind
themselves of that fact well then I have no hopes for them on the hardwood. Xavier and St. John’s, hey anytime you are named after a saint you
have to have some pull upstairs so I will carry you guys at least one game. Notre Dame, I have always wanted to visit
Paris so that is good for at least two kicks up in the brackets. Oklahoma, one of my favorite musicals, you
may pass go and collect 200 dollars. Harvard,
come on really? All they can talk about
is football. Back on the bus for you. Louisville, which for all practical purposes was
a part of Indiana until they got all snippy about the Civil War. I will grant
you a soft spot pass up one bracket.
Coastal Carolina, I love the coast of Carolina north or south so you get
extra points for the beach. Providence, I don’t think
that is divine so have a seat in the bleachers.
UCLA, of course having a Hoosier born coach that I watched grow up in my
home town you get to move to the front of the line. It also doesn’t hurt because the coach has
great hair. Eastern Washington, once
again we have a school that is directionally challenged. The last time I glanced at a US map
Washington was in the West. So sorry
guys, here’s a snow cone for your trouble and watch from the rafters. Davidson, I always kind of liked the singer
John Davidson so I will let you by just this one time. Belmont, didn’t anyone tell them “no horses
allowed”? Sorry they make way too much
mess on the court. The S.F. Austin
Lumberjacks, I know nothing about them but I think it would be worth one pass
to see them play in those red and black checked flannel uniforms. North Dakota State, you
have to feel sorry for anyone that would spend the winter in ND of their own
free will so they at least deserve a trip away from the frigid north. Manhattan, let’s get real here! They play stick ball in NY don’t they? Sorry boys no sticks allowed and back to the
bowery for you. Butler, I will not
mention the fact that they are one of my home state teams of choice but forget
that. Just the fact that I love Downton
Abbey and having a butler means class for this you gives you a free pass. West Virginia, you have always had a bum rap
ever since that movie “Deliverance”. I
will grant you a couple brackets just because “you got a purdy mouth”. No way am I going to give a nod to Northern
Florida. The last thing we need is
gators and mosquitoes moving northward.
Stay down in the glades. Duke, sorry but no
further. Let’s just say the Blue Devil
made me do it. Arizona, one of my
favorite songs by Paul Revere and the Raiders so you get to move onward. I guess if we want to be patriotic and carry
the Revolutionary War theme a bit further I should probably be nice to
Georgetown at least for one game. As for
Indiana I don’t want to show partiality so I say “better luck next year”. Purdue, I have a problem with a conference
named The Big Ten but they are unable to count. Has no one pointed out to them they actually have
14 teams in the conference? You may be
the oldest conference in the US but you should be better at math by now. No pass to the Boilermakers. Gonzaga, the problem with
this school is that I have a mental block with the name. The Bunkmate has trouble remembering the name so he just calls it “Gonads”. Subsequently, I cannot find it in my comfort zone to promote
a team that reminds me of a “crotch shot”.
Ok, I have been ignoring the elephant in the room and have not mentioned
Kentucky. Well any state that will take
credit for a chicken recipe created by a Hoosier born restauranteur and then
make him a colonel to try and put up a smoke screen to cover this up is at the
bottom of my list. Let’s tabulate the
results, looks like according to my bracketology our national champion will the
Running Nuns of Our Lady of Perpetual Three Pointers. This school is known all across the nation as
the team of hookers . They have the
highest percentage of successful hook shots in the Vatican Rosary Conference.
So lets’s pop some popcorn, pull up an easy chair and on to Indianapolis. |
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