Ok, there I was feeling rather smug about my bracket.
I picked 3 out of four winners in the play-in games, then proceeded to get 13
out of 15 of the first round contests. Then I wake up this morning and see that
Harvard beat New Mexico late last night. Seriously?
I am here to tell you that if Harvard University has
now become a basketball power, we are in serious trouble as a nation. What’s
next, MIT putting a beat down on Alabama in the Sugar Bowl? Forget testing for
steroids or illegal drugs, I demand to see the full academic transcripts of
every man on the Harvard roster. I want SAT scores, GPA’s and I want the NCAA
to demand that each of them translate two chapters of The Odyssey into
English before their next game. If their starting five can’t explain the
central importance of the Pythagorean theorem to Euclidian geometry in less
than two minutes then I want a full investigation into their eligibility. What
are we to make of this? Here we have the premier academic institution in all of
America going out on a basketball court and defeating a State university who
won 29 games this year and who many thought should have been seeded even higher
than a 3. New Mexico’s coach, Steve Alford had been interviewed more times than
Hillary Clinton in the days leading up to the tournament. Many wise prognosticators
of college hoops had declared New Mexico as their pick to make it to the final
four. So, I’m supposed to believe that a bunch of scrappy eggheads who lost to
mighty Columbia by 15 points in February, just waltz out onto the floor and
beat the Lobos? Color me skeptical.
So, now the West Regional has been transformed into
Revenge of the Nerds. Wonderful.
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