Every-one Went Home

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These are the seeds of the teams in the 2011 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament Final Four. Notice anything peculiar about them? You got it. There are no one-seeds in the picture.

I was called crazy (I even called myself crazy) for constructing my bracket without any top teams in the semi finals of the dance. But the way I saw it, the gap between the one seeds and four seeds wasn't that big, so it only made sense that each of them would fall before the finals. Especially with teams like Connecticut going into the tournament red hot instead of lukewarm like some of the top seeds.

Last year's final four consisting of Michigan State (5), Duke (1), Butler (5), and West Virgina (2) wasn't too unpredictable. While only one top seed made it to the Final Four, no one was surprised that the Mountaineers and Spartans made it. Add up those seed numbers. They total 13.

This year, it's a different story. The 2011 edition of the Final Four have a collective seed total of 26.

To me, Connecticut dancing through the West Region and Kentucky upsetting Ohio State in the East seemed obvious. Although I admitted taking the Huskies to go all the way was either going to make me or break me. Granted, I had VCU losing in the first round and Butler getting bounced two days later, but for my first time, I don't think I did too terribly.

Next year, I'll definitely do some more research on the matchups I'm less sure of, but overall, I think the best way to go is to just stick with my gut and avoid overthinking the games. Because hey, right now I rank in the top 1% of brackets on Facebook... and that's good enough for me.