I thought about one final WMD for the season but I kept looking at the schedule and getting 31-way ties for the Watch game. So watch as much basketball as you can this weekend1.
The above is one simulation from Evan Miyakawa’s utterly indispensable Bracket Simulation machine. I pressed the button once, saved the photo, inserted it above and now we’re going one month into the future to figure out how we arrived at this conclusion. Treat this as fiction2. Go make a fun bracket of your own here and subscribe to Evan’s site, because it’s awesome.
Wow. Wasn’t that great? Another March Madness, come and gone.
What will you remember most? For me, it has to be South Florida—the program of no Sweet 16s and exactly one Tournament win in its history bucking up and making a run to the second weekend, throttling fellow upstart Washington State before continuing an annual March tradition of running Brad Underwood out of the Tournament before the second weekend.
Amir Abdur-Rahim isn’t long for Tampa, and why should he be? In back-to-back seasons, he’s taken Kennesaw State to its first NCAA Tournament (or at least first in Division I) and now he's taken South Florida to dual American titles and a pair of wins in the Big Dance. South Florida hadn’t won a conference title since 1990… 34 years and four conferences (Sun Belt, Metro, CUSA, Big East) ago.