Thrown to the wolves

Well, the craziest game of the day was the North Carolina State Wolfpack knocking out the Nova Gang. On the one side, kudos to Fitch, Hahn, E Pogach, Smith, and Warner, for picking NC State as their wildcard. On the other side, bit of a bummer for the 55 entrants who predicted VIllanova into the Elite Eight, the 35 of us who suggested Nova would make the Final Four, and especially for Bill Acchione, Geo B, A Cristinzio, and O'Brien, all of whom prematurely crowned Villanova as national champion.

Other than that, not a lot of action. Georgetown's loss disappointed the 13 of us who had the Hoyas as wildcards, as well as Burch and D Kornfeld, who pegged Georgetown as Elite Eight caliber. Xavier's victory rewarded Geo B and S Leach, who took Xavier as their wildcard, and raised the hopes of Booth, who picked the Musketeers into her Elite Eight. Arkansas' demise might have soured the evenings of Mash Leach and Rybaltowski, both of whom erroneously listed the Razorbacks among their Final Eight teams. And in the last game of the night, Notre Dame's exciting overtime victory disturbed the slumber of nobody except Schiarabba, who chose Butler into his Elite Eight.

Finally, anyone else notice when the announcers in the Kentucky/Cincinnati game exclaimed that the winner of the game would be rewarded with a trip to Cleveland? No offense to any Clevelanders out there, but when the Cincinnati players heard that, you could hardly blame them if they stopped trying.

We'll update the standings (to reflect wildcard points) after the games tomorrow.