Jayhawks and Front Runners

Basketball, College Basketball, Major Sports

Posted by SK, April 8, 2008 - 10:59 pm

First off, congrats to the KU Jayhawks for their improbable victory last night.  The game was close, but Memphis still appeared to have it in hand throughout the night.  This sports fan actually contemplated going to bed with about 5 minutes left in the game, because it actually wasn’t all that exciting until the last two minutes.  Of course, that was when the entire Memphis team, up by nine points, decided to simultaneously choke from the free throw line.  And then that, of course, was followed by Mario Chalmers and his ginormous testicles of steel coming through and hitting that ridiculous 3-pointer at the end of regulation to send the game into overtime.

The first Kansas title in 20 years also marked the first time in the history of the 64-team bracket that all 4 regional #1 seeds made it to the Final Four.  Stephen Curry and Davidson almost made it interesting, but this year there were no major upsets to be had in the Sweet 16.  And in our little experiment, Hasan H walked away the victor, even though all he did was pick the higher seed in each matchup.  Hey H-Dub, congratulations.  You’re what I’d like to call a loathsome, front-running tool. 

Luckily, none of us actually put money in this pool.

So as the college hoops season has come to a close, it’s now time to put the brackets and highlighters away until next year.  After the initial madness of the Monday after Selection Sunday, photocopiers and printers in offices across the country have gone back to their normal workloads.  And so will we. 

We’ll definitely run an expanded and more intricate version of this experiment again next year.  Will H-Dub repeat?  Will Kansas repeat?  Will Bill Self leave for his alma mater just like Roy Williams did?  We’ll have to wait until March of 2009 to figure out the answer to those questions.

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