I have the complexion of an 800-pound woman confined to her bedroom. I can’t close my eyes without seeing dribble-drive dishes for an open three in the corner. And every sentence ends with a
Vitaleian “Baby!”.
I’ve either got a nasty case of that “Basketball Jones” Cheech and Chong sang about or it’s nearly tournament time. Or, like last year, it’s both.
The furious conference schedule has taken over my life. Winter Olympics by day and college hoops by night, leaving little time to shower, shave or brave the now-scary outside world which is full of what I call, “normalites” - or people who don’t dedicate six nights out of their week to the NCAA basketball Gods.
I know I’m not alone. There are plenty of you out there, staying up to 1 a.m. to catch the end of some WAC matchup, practicing your “I told you so” for the office pool and scribbling projected brackets on the front window of your house like Russell Crowe in
A Beautiful Mind.
With just a few games left on each team’s plate before conference tournaments tip off, the No. 1 seeds for the field of 65 are becoming a little clearer. Kansas, Kentucky, Syracuse and Purdue are the consensus among most notable “Bracketologist”.
But the million dollar question is who gets the No. 2 seeds?
The contenders appear to be Duke, Kansas State, Villanova, West Virginia, Pittsburgh, Ohio State and the red-hot New Mexico Lobos.
Who are your No. 2s?