Opening Weekend of the NCAA Tournament

There is always a ton of excitement and joy when those brackets first get announced on Selection Sunday, but then reality hits on the first day of the tournament.  People say "you're the sports guy, you should be great at picking winers," but those people are wrong.  I am terrible at filling out brackets.  I pick too many upsets, and when upsets actually happen, they are the wrong ones.  I was convinced Georgia would beat Xavier, but I was wrong.  One of my good friends had 1 game wrong after the first day of games this year.  What game was incorrect?  The one I talked him into changing...USC vs. Kansas State.  If you don't know me well, you may not know this, but I am a huge USC sports fan.

One positive to the games was our former Weekend Sports Anchor David Kmiecik coming back to Eau Claire to watch the games.  We headed down to a local watering hole to watch the games.  It was very humorous to watch him pace and scream at the televisions during the Marquette-Kentucky game.  But afterward, I realized one of my brackets was done because I had USC in the Final Four.

As for the Wisconsin Badgers, I can honestly say that I have been impressed.  The game against Cal State Fullerton wasn't the best of games, but Wisconsin did pull away at the end a little bit.  One of my friends, a big "sports fanatic", missed Thursday night's game because he was at the Avril Levigne concert in Minnesota...and he went to Madison.  If I were the team, I would take that as a slap in the face.  The win over Kansas State was a very nice one.  I would like to describe it differently than "nice" but they just really looked good.  I didn't think a team without any "standout" players could do much damage but they are proving me wrong.  After all, I am the guy who can't win a NCAA pool.

Bill Port

Comments

[David]

Avril Lavigne concert... ha