I must comment on my absence away from SwaggerTooth.com.  I apologize.  It’s been a stressful few days and I have not been able to post as frequently as I would like.  But now I have totally adjusted my priorities in a way that bumps “real work” down the list which naturally slides SwaggerTooth right up.

It’s NCAA tournament time! I watched the first set of games at work today (don’t tell nobody) and everything went pretty much as planned.  The only surprise was LSU winning.  In my bracket, I have all the SEC teams losing in the first round; the conference was incredibly weak this year.  I overlooked the fact that Butler just wasn’t anything at all either.  So end result, LSU sqeaks by.  I fully expect UNC to absolutely destroy them.

UCONN: Best wishes to Coach Calhoun who is feeling ill in a Philadelphia hospital and will be kept overnight for tests.  Now what’s interesting about all of this:

• UConn still won.  By a lot.  56 points.  3rd largest margin of victory in NCAA tourney history, to be exact. And even more interesting…

• This is the third NCAA tournament game Calhoun has missed. In the two previous instances, UConn went on to win the national title.

Hmm, I wonder how “ill” he was feeling after all.  Tracking…

My picks for the games this evening: Texas, Michigan, Nova, Zags, Duke, Oklahoma, UCLA, Illinois.

More later on tonight…

-El Meester

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