If you filled out your bracket thinking that the Big Ten Conference was The College Basketball Powerhouse, you're sunk. But you're probably sunk no matter what you were thinking. I'm trying to invent a Rule that, in retrospect, would have proven golden. About the best I can do is: never pick a Big Ten team to win a game unless the opponent is a #16 seed or a member of the allegedly powerful Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). Corollary: never choose an ACC team to win. I think there have been 39 games played so far, and these two rules would have dictated a choice in 16 of them, yielding 13 correct calls. The exceptions would have been the first round wins of Iowa, Maryland, and Florida State. But the 13 correct choices would have included several notable upsets: Oral Roberts over Ohio State, North Texas over Purdue, Loyola over Illinois, and Ohio over Virginia.
You can mock me in the comments if Maryland, Michigan, Iowa, and Florida State all win tomorrow.
My Sunday walk suggests that patio drinking & dining is up and running across south Minneapolis. Twins first regular season game is a week from Thursday, in Milwaukee.
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