The 64 Things You Need To Know For The NCAA Tournament

1. This weekend is the best weekend of the sports year.
2. Attendance at work and school will be down Thursday and Friday this week.
3. We should have these days off.
4. I will watch some of every game this weekend.
5. I will eat way too much food too.
6. The Mega March Madness package through DirecTV for 60 dollars is the best deal around.
7. I am counting down the hours until tip on Thursday at 12:20.
8. Indiana will beat Arkansas and take UNC to the brink in Round 2.
9. The ACC was highly overrated this year.
10. Bobby Knight has been great on ESPN so far.
11. Pitt is the hottest team entering the tourney.
12. It doesn’t matter, they won’t beat Memphis is the Sweet 16.
13. The Selection Committee has an insane job and we need to leave them alone every year.
14. With that said, the NCAA needs to expand the field.
15. UNLV will beat Kent St. and will play with Kansas in the second round.
16. Michael Beasley is the best player in the tourney but won’t win a game.
17. There will not be four #1’s in the Final Four.
18. Hasheem Thabeet is better then Roy Hibbert and this is his coming out party.
19. Cornell vs. Stanford might be the smartest game in tournament history.
20. I will take Mississippi St. to beat Oregon.
21. The first round will have more close games then last year and even a few games will be decided by buzzer beaters.
22. Hansbrough vs. Harangody will be an undersized classic, granted they both get to the Sweet 16.
23. BYU will beat Texas A+M.
24. Many people are picking chalk across the board.  That means someone will definitely bust brackets wide open.
25. That someone could be USC.
26. Or Maybe UCONN.
27. The play-in game does matter.
28. My brother has a great idea.  Seed everyone in Division 1 in November and make the tourney last all year long.
29. This is because the regular season has gotten boring in recent years.
30. Michael Beastly is going for 30 and 15 (at least).
31. Butler will beat South Alabama.
32. Because they are much better then their 7 seed.
33. My Final Four is Tenn., Memphis, Kansas and UCLA.
34. UNC will not win it all.  They are not the countries best team.
35. That’s because their schedule was very soft this year.
36. A 16 seed will never beat a #1.
37. Davidson will beat the Zags.
38. Bill Simmons will finally beat his wife with predictions.
39. Duke will again loose to a lower seeded team.  This year it will be Xavier.
40. I will once again win my family pool.  For the 3^rd straight year.
41. If I don’t my brother Justin or my Mom will win.
42. St. Mary’s will upset Miami in round one.
43. Dick Vitale needs to chill with his love for UNC, it gets annoying, BABY!!!!
44. Kansas and UCLA will meet in the Championship game.
45. Georgia is exhausted and will loose in the first round.
46. I didn’t pick one but a 13 will beat a 4.
47. It might be Siena, they’re good.
48. UNC has an unfair advantage with where they are playing their games.
49. So does Texas, if they reach the Sweet 16 and Elite 8.
50. Arizona will beat West Virginia.  Joe Alexander is for real though.
51. DJ Augustine will have the highest scoring game in the tourney.
52. The 5-12 upset is Temple over Michigan St.
53. UCLA is going to beat Kansas and finally get over the top.
54. The score will be 82-79 in a classic.
55. Kevin Love will not win the tournament MVP but he will be back next year.
56. Darren Collison will be the tourney MVP.
57. The Final Four is always overrated, but not this year.
58. The Championship game starts way too late.
59. My Mom will allow me to hang out and enjoy the first two days, which is great.
60. But she won’t allow me to enjoy the weekend, not with Easter this Sunday and the family party happening at our house.
61. The All-Tourney will be: Kevin Love at Center, Tyler Hansbrough at PF, Brandon Rush at SF, Chris Lofton at SG and Darren Collison at PG.
62. On Monday morning you will be throwing away your bracket but counting down the days until basketball starts again on Thursday afternoon.
63. This will be a tournament to remember.
64. They all are.

Good luck to everyone in their pools and I hope you all enjoy the tournament, I will.

Until next time, I’m gone, like the Rockets win streak.