Our annual March distraction has come and almost gone again. This year’s NCAA tournament held plenty of surprises Yale advancing, Arkansas Pine- Bluff defeating the mighty Michigan State Spartans, but the biggest surprise was launched by a perennial power. The Syracuse Orangemen (yes it still call them Orangemen even though they had to change their name to just the Orange a few years ago out of political correctness). Syracuse a 10 seed wasn’t even supposed to have made the tourney, but because they were perhaps an underachieving great team managed to get in and do in large part because of good fortune they are now in the Final Four. Only one of my picks are still alive, Villanova. I had Virginia, Kentucky, Villanova and Texas A&M with Virginia winning it all. With the actual Final four made up of Syracuse, Villanova, Oklahoma and North Carolina, it would prove to be ironic and fitting that the 10 seed who was not even supposed to be in the tourney win it all.
