March Madness 2011 Week 1: Idol, Parenthood, Glee and of course...NCAA!

He's baaaaaaccckkk!!! Kyrie Irving is set to shoot the lights out | Credit: Bleacher Report

In a week where most of the shows that I follow are in hiatus, it is quite remarkable that TV-related entertainment is still at a high gear. Here are the reasons: NCAA March Madness, American Idol, Parenthood, Glee and… wait for it… NCAA March Madness. Have I mentioned March Madness?

NCAA March Madness has been awesome that I have to mention it thrice. OK, I am exaggerating (since there is a relative dearth of talent this year). Nevertheless, I am psyched for US College Basketball because of brackets, brackets, and brackets. Even if I have a very low chance of defeating President Obama’s college bracket. For an extremely busy guy leading a country in times of crisis, he has a remarkable skill in following sports.

It is quite ironic that I am getting entertained in a week where NBA takes a back seat. I have not even followed NBA for quite a long time now. I did not even notice that my fantasy keeper league’s trade deadline has ended.

NCAA 2011 March Madness Bracket

The HIMYM gang even picked Duke to reach the National Championship Game. Click the image to see clearly. | Credit: How I Met Your Mother

Here is a short blog entry about my March Madness picks this year. Last year, I was successful in predicting who will win the NCAA tournament (thus beating Bill Simmons and President Obama’s brackets in the process). It was a lucky pick (based from my gut). This year, I will attempt to beat their brackets again. I have not seen Obama’s bracket though. It also took me little time to make my picks for the NCAA tourney outcome this year but I have to say that I am more informed on the stories behind the teams… ahem! Jimmer’s 52 points. Ahem! I think I can explain some of my picks as well. Without much further ado, shown below is my March Madness Bracket for 2011:

March Madness: Of Brackets, American Idol and TV Series

Credit: Sports Illustrated

It is March Madness time again! Actually, it has not started yet but I am very excited to make my NCAA picks (although I doubt that I can predict the champion again). The best thing about March Madness is the bracket. If you love team sports, you know that brackets are the best way to decide the champion. You get to pit the best of the best with one another and who wins, advances to the next round. However, the ultimate team sport for brackets (I don’t consider doubles in tennis as team sport) is March Madness. Currently, 64 American colleges battle it out to gain basketball supremacy. The big number of teams involved just suggests how extensive the scope of the competition is. Predicting who which teams will advance in each round and who wins the crown is a very improbable task to perfect. Good teams fall unexpectedly because there is just one game per round.

Predicting makes March Madness fun. Anything can happen. You can make your most in-depth analysis and you can still fail in predicting the winner. Or if you were a lucky fantard like me, you may end up predicting (at least) the big winner.

Duke Against The World

A month ago, I can still remember when I was picking the teams for my NCAA March Madness bracket. I have not done it before and I have no clue on how good more than half the league was. I can still remember Ted Mosby and Marshall Eriksen of How I Met Your Mother failing terribly in their March Madness brackets despite of hours of research. The same goes to Bill Simmons as he has failed miserably last year.

Am I going to make my bracket for the sake of doing it?

NCAA 2010 March Madness Bracket

I am posting my NCAA 2010 March Madness Bracket before all my Final Four teams get eliminated (Kansas just fell awhile ago). But since I picked my teams in less than ten minutes (things like this should never be meticulously thought out, just ask Ted Mosby and Barrack Obama. Their national champion teams got eliminated), I won't be putting as much analysis on it. I just picked them based on familiarity and popularity (and how the teams sound good) with some upsets every now and then.

My Bracket