It's March Madness Baby! 2009 Edition

March Madness seemed a little less mad
this year, or at the very least the brackets did. A lot of mediocre teams from big conferences made it in this year which means trying to pick upsets less fun. At least that was until yesterday’s Pardon the Interruption started calling for Congressional investigation into the NCAA for favoring major conferences over small ones. Hopefully when the tournament we do get some exciting games, but the tournament selection really robbed us of man y potential Davidson like runs this year. Now keep in mind you may be better off taking the advice of your little sister, but here are my picks for this year.

East
Finals: Villanova (3) over Xavier (4)
Upset Special: VCU (11) over UCLA (6)

Midwest
Finals: Louisville (1) over Kansas (3)
Upset Special: Dayton (11) over West Virginia (6)

South
Finals: North Carolina (1) over Arizona St. (6)
Upset Special: Western Kentucky (12) over Illinois (5)

West
Finals: Memphis (2) over Washington (4)
Upset Special: Utah St. (11) over Marquette (6)

Final Four
Louisville over Mephis
North Carolina over Villanova

Finals
North Carolina over Louisville 68-60

I didn’t notice until I wrote this that I have all the 11-seeds out in the first round except the one I have going to the Elite 8. Maybe an already ominous start to my bracket. Or may just be genius. But most likely stupid.