5-12 matchup. Against a 12 that should have been seeded higher. And of course it’s Harvard. Hope people enjoy a game with actual student-athletes playing against other actual student-athletes.
Proof, again, why this is the greatest event in sports? Friends represented this year by: UConn, Notre Dame, Michigan State, Colorado State, Virginia, Syracuse, West Virginia, Ohio State, Alabama, Cal, Michigan, San Diego State and Kansas. And that’s just off the top of my head.
And I have officially come around 100% on the “First Four” simply because it means two games Tuesday night and two on Wednesday. WALL TO WALL MADNESS.
On to New Mexico!
ETA: Kevin Stallings has cleared himself of the charges, as far as I’m concerned. He did figure out how to coach this team up – brilliantly, today – and he managed not to waste the most talented Vanderbilt team in a lifetime. Jury’s out on recruiting, but we always knew this would be a rebuilding year and we can wait one season basking in lingering glory before we hunker down to it in 2013-14. They responded to the pressure of expectations. That’s good enough for me.