My leavening prejudices for Big East and D.C.-area college basketball programs served me poorly yesterday, which was, according to football jersey some, the wildest first day in recent N.C.A.A. tournament history. The fates of Big East teams, which make up one eighth of the field, exemplified the stunning turns of events yesterday.
Georgetown? Drowned!
Notre Dame? Notre Done!
Marquette? Dreck!
And Villanova? They needed overtime to survive Amy Davidson’s upset darlings, Robert Morris. Meanwhile Murray State took out Vanderbilt—my one correct upset pick on Thursday.
Naturally, though, Alexa Cassanos, the queen of soccer uniforms the New Yorker office pools, had Old Dominion over Notre Dame (so did Ian Crouch, Nick Paumgarten, and Steve Coll). Nobody in our pool picked the Ohio Bobcats to be anything but losers yesterday.
I watched the final minutes of that game in a pizzeria in the Big East town where I live. The Hoyas looked like they were waiting for someone to come along and reassure them that it was all a bad dream—that they weren’t actually playing the real game until Friday.
Well, Friday is here and there are likely to be more bad dreams and busted brackets today. As of soccer jerseys
this writing, it looks like Cornell may live up to its hype and topple Temple. Can Vermont pull a second opening-round upset of Syracuse in five years? And what about the possibility of Houston over Maryland? Wouldn’t that send me weeping into the weekend.
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