The Madness has Ended.

Photo by: David J. Phillip/Associated Press

 

The North Carolina Tar Heels have defeated the Gonzaga Bulldogs in a game that most basketball fans would agree sucked ass! Dominated by whistles and bad calls the referees failed the NCAA in providing entertainment that would capture the audience’s attention watching at home.

Check out this tweet i sent out in frustration…

I was at the gym watching the #nationalchampionship but the refs killed the game… #smh had to settle for hockey highlights.

— ViewsfromtheWaterboy (@WaterboyViews) April 4, 2017

I wasn’t the only frustrated viewer…

Man I can't watch this anymore man! I would like to see the kids decide who wins the game! I mean Bruh!! Smh

— LeBron James (@KingJames) April 4, 2017

Love the effort from all these kids. Cant say that for the refs. Killed the flow.

— Colin Cowherd (@ColinCowherd) April 4, 2017

Let these kids play. Put the whistles away.

— DWade (@DwyaneWade) April 4, 2017

Collins gone and that's a shame. Officials ruined this gm

— shannon sharpe (@ShannonSharpe) April 4, 2017

Seems to me quite a few people were watching the same thing I was!

Well in the end my bracket was gutted and I didn’t win no prize money, so I still have to go to work tomorrow. I finished with 46 out of 63 games correct, good for 73%. Not bad but next year I will need to get it into the 80s for a shot.

Let me know how you did… Below is the bracket I posted at the beginning of the tournament.

 

The Madness has begun…

As promised, here is my March Madness bracket.

I know I am 12 hours late in posting it, but take my word this is the exact bracket I submitted into a cash contest.

Hit me up on Twitter to let me know what you think!

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Bracket of Madness

 

As many of you may know every March of every year comes a tournament called “March Madness” which is THE premiere event the NCAA corporation (tell me it isn’t a corporation) holds for its college and university basketball programs. In this tournament if you do not already have a dog in this race you will find yourself rooting for schools you’ve never heard of or jumping on the old bandwagon of the popular, highly regarded and often televised schools. Speaking for myself, I like to check in on the teams with the top prospects in the upcoming NBA draft and I will tell you why.

When I am filling out my March Madness bracket, I tend to give the edge to the teams that have players who are on the cusp of entering the NBA. More often than not, it is the teams with the most NBA prospects that make it thru to the Elite Eight, Final Four and Finals. Who doesn’t want to the see the next big star take over the tournament headlines and generate some buzz? You can be damn sure I do. Something inside me wants to see Lonzo Ball just go berserk by breaking ankles and shooting the shit out of the gym! Imagine the garbage that will spew from Lamar Ball’s mouth after that. I know he’s made some crazy statements, but dammit the man is comically entertaining.

However, things tend to get a bit dicey in the Madness! Every year a group of young men with no star player decide it is time to make Vegas some dollars and picking which team will be sending home a top seed crying is literally a crap shoot. For someone like myself that does not follow NCAA basketball religiously these damn underdogs are a pain in the ass because I don’t see enough of these lower seeds to know how they play. I could go with what the pundits are predicting but I will not; I like to live dangerously.

Make sure you enjoy watching this tournament and don’t pull your hair out filling out your bracket… it’s not that serious. I will be posting my picks later today and hopefully I can pick the right underdog!

…Oh, and before I forget. Big up to my Canadian dudes reppin’ for the Maple Leaf during the tournament. There’s too many to name… 15 years ago who would have guessed there’d be too many Canadians to name in the March Madness?