…keep one eye open like C-B-S

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And we begin again. Let me just say, for the record, NCAA basketball is “Sweet”. And I am not saying that because my bracket is unbustable. It is not. Using the 1-2-4-7-10-12 point system I use with my eighth grade students (two points in the first round for a correct upset pick), the 1-2-3-4-5-10 point system used with the pool I joined and the 10-20-40-80-160-320 ESPN point system, I have 46, 46 and 460 points respectively thus far. Putting me just behind President Obama (470) in 2,167,290th place. Which means I am picking teams at about a 50% rate well behind the 100% rate of P. Sergi, D. Jones, V. Gordon and J. Jamroz in 1st place with 620 points.
It is what it is. I do not put too much energy nor am I worried about my bracket because I do it for fun. Especially when I purposely pick and hope for 1st round upsets. I had Ohio State facing off against Michigan State in the Final Four because I wanted the see a rematch of the Big Ten Semifinal game. And, though I didn’t pick them, I really hoped Morgan State (my HBCU allegiance) to beat Oklahoma like Hampton (15) beat Iowa State (2) in ’01.
That is why we fill out brackets: the unpredictability of it all. You never know who is going to win so you take your chances. That is why we watch, but for those of us who are not college students on CS (College Students’) Time we are not home for the 12ET (11CT) tip offs. Good thing CBS takes care of us. March Madness On Demand (only $Free) had every 1st round game. Having 40 Macs at my disposal, in theory, I could have watched all 32 games on 32 15” screens (beat that ESPN Zone). I did not. My students had work to do and I did not want to be selfish. Instead, I watched two games at a time (that is the screen shot above) clicking back and forth between close games. If only CBS could get the NFL to open their eyes to the viewership possibilities.

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