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My Bracket’s Better Than Yours

Filed on April 7th, 2009 in Basketball ⋅ ⋅

I don’t fancy myself a real basketball fan. Honestly, if I don’t have money on it, I’m not watching it. But over the years I’ve noticed that there is a funny correlation between watching basketball and filling out a bracket successfully.

When I was younger, I would watch games religiously and fail miserably when the tournament rolled around in my pools. Having what I thought was actual college basketball knowledge turned out to be detrimental to my postseason handicapping.

Then a funny thing happened around 2005. I stopped working in radio, therefore had no real reason to follow the sport in a professional manner. I began watching it casually and now it makes complete sense to me why the guy who watches no basketball, or the chick who watches no sports, always wins the office pool.

Take a look at my impressive final ranking in my ESPN.com bracket.

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With no “knowledge” of the teams, you don’t fall into the upset trap. Upsets occasionally happen, but trying to predict them is worthless. I’m no expert now, but I’ve realized over the last few years that when I think I know what I’m talking about, I don’t. When I just wing it, I do well.

I don’t know how many people were entered in ESPN.com’s fantasy bracket thing, but I know it was well over 4 million. So for me to finish in the top 7500 is something I’m quite proud of.

Oh well, March Madness is now over and One Shining Moment is done. For my money, this was the worst tournament of my lifetime. No upsets, no Cinderellas and all blowouts.

But still — infinitely better than the BCS.

And finally, One Shining Moment to put the 2009 NCAA tournament to rest.

Take a look at my impressive final ranking in my ESPN.com bracket.