Cinderella and a Flop

It's March Madness time, one of the whackier couple of weeks in the sports year. This is the time of year when everyone, sports fan or not, thinks they can fill out the perfect bracket. It's when college basketball junkies can get their pants handed to them in pools by idiots who thought Xavier was just a character from 'X-Men', much less a university. I consider myself a member of the latter group; while you can probably count the number of players I can name on two hands, I always seem to come out with a pretty decent bracket. It's almost as if the more naive you are, the better your bracket will turn out.

To prove my theory, I'm going to predict this year's Cinderella, and this year's dissapointment. If you're as much of a rookie college hoops fan as I am, toss a couple teams out there too, you'll be spot on, trust me. And if you consider yourself a somewhat knowledgeble fan, then give it a shot as well so we can all laugh at you as your dignity gets swept away when your "this year's George Mason" gets pummeled by a 4 seed in the first round.

Ok, here's mine.....

Cinderella: Oklahoma State (They're coming off a big win over Oklahoma, and their first round game is against the always underachieving Tennessee.)

Flop: Wake Forest (I think they'll have no problem with Cleveland State, but after that they have to play the winner of Utah vs. Arizona. Utah is as strong as anyone out west right now, and Arizona is probably the strongest 12 seed in recent memory.)