Bracket jabber  We haven't really taken an extended look at the
brackets since they were unveiled, so, uh, let's do that...
First things first: I owe the committee an apology. I predicted
that this would be the most hotly contested (read: worst)
bracket of all-time, and the truth was the exact opposite. We
can argue over seeds and the last two or three teams left in or
out for hours, but it's hard for even the most cynical among us
to say that the committee didn't earn their paychecks this year.
First, on Louisville's draw:  I'm basically hearing people who
either love the draw, or think the East is the hardest region in
the history of the NCAA Tournament. The truth, as it is with
most things, is probably somewhere in the middle.  I do think
that we couldn't have asked for a more difficult 1/2 seed combo.
For the last month I've been saying the three teams that I
wanted to avoid in the tournament were Texas, North Carolina and
Tennessee, and now here we are with two of them in our quadrant.
A lot of people