Countdown to a busted bracket

So the best time of year is here. The weather is turning warmer, spring training is underway, and the NCAA basketball tournament is just two days away. Watching the Selection Sunday show I was already forming in my head who I was going to pick. I knew right away which upset I was going to take and who was going to be in my Final Four. Rachel filled out a bracket also and I am already beginning to face the reality that even though she filled it out without even looking at the teams it seems like, she is going to win and my bracket is going to be busted by this weekend. But it is still fun to rack my brain over and see if at least a couple of my picks pan out to be good ones. Also, as I was filling out my bracket, or should I say brackets, I began to think just how fickle and temporary this kind of thing is. There is so much else that I can set my mind on that is more "true, honorable, just, pure, lovely, commendable, excellent, and worthy of praise" (phil. 4:8), yet my time is consumed with NCAA basketball and American Idol, and oh yeah, Survivor. Not that these things are bad in and of themselves, but when I really sit down to think about it, all this stuff is so, well you know.

But to come back to the NCAA tournament. KU has the #1 seed in the West Regional and I must say, I think that they can make it to the Final Four. They are playing with extreme confidence right now and have beaten a scrappy, and really good Texas team with the player of the year in Durant, twice. But if you want to know my picks for the Final Four, here they are (as you can see, my confidence in the Jayhawks dwindles in the Elite Eight against UCLA): Florida, UCLA, Georgetown, and Ohio St. My Championship game I have the Bruins of UCLA falling short to the Buckeyes of Ohio St. Let me go on record to say that if the championship game comes down to Ohio St. and Florida I don't think that I'm even going to watch it. The only talk that you will hear over and over again will be just how amazing these two schools are and how it's a repeat of the BCS Championship game. That would be the worst case scenario of this years' tournament. Not to mention that I am sick of seeing Joakim Noah and his ugly hair and stupid dancing after an SEC win over a mediocre and crappy Arkansas team.

Anyway, let's just say that I am thinking way too much about all of this.

Let's go KU.

ROCK CHALK JAYHAWK baby!!!!!!