Some Notes on the NCAA's

Don't I feel stupid. Yesterday I emailed Jenna, our blogging intern, and told her I was going to be a day late with my blog this week. She said that it was fine, and I had a justified reason. My editor at the Pittsburgh Sports Report gave me a last second assignment that was due by 8 am today. The assignment was a 1,000 word artile on the Pirates projected lineup. I knew it would take me a while to write 1,000 positive words about a Pirate team that hasn't won since Barry Bonds had a porn mustache and was still wearing black and gold.

But that's not why I feel stupid. Here I am, not having enough time to write a blog because I was too busy, and Meredith gets hit by a car and still writes her blog. I think she is just trying to make me look bad. But that's OK, I hope she heels quickly.

But onto the blog...

If you made it all the way through my last entry, you would see that I picked Pitt to beat Tennessee in the national championship this year. Well Pitt just lost to Michigan State and Tennessee looks just as bad as Bruce Pearl's bright orange suit. So instead of talking about who will win the tournament, since I obviously know nothing, I will just post a few notes that have come to my attention while watching nearly 20 hours of basketball on CBS.

• Is it just me, or is Billy Packard a poor man's Bill Raftery? He just doesn't give me the same littlleeee kisss off the glass.
• Does Clark Kellog have a real job? Because I only see him once a year and that's during March Madness. Maybe he makes cereal the other 11 months of the year.
• When Bobby Knight first got hired at ESPN as a college basketball analyst, I thought it was stupid because he is a hypocrite. Then he picked Pitt to win it all, and I thought he was a genius. Now Pitt lost, and I think he should be fired.
• I love how every March the media picks one player from a small school to crown the messiah of basketball. This year it is Stephen Curry of Davidson. I'm sure he is a good player, but why do they wait until now to talk about how great he is. If he was so great he would be playing in the Big East, Pac-10 or the ACC, and we would have heard about him in December. I'm not saying great players don't come from small schools, but for every Derek Fisher of Arkansas Little-Rock, there are a dozen Patrick O'Bryant's of Bradley.
• What the hell is the CBI Tournament? Sometimes I think they just create extra tournaments so people can have more games to bet on. I wonder if I could create my own tournament for the teams who didn't make the NCAA's, the NIT or the CBI. I'd call it the Tournament of Teams Who Suck So Bad Their Scholarships Should Be Forfeited.