Every year we vacillate, equivocate and otherwise approach the NCAA bracket like Frodo going to Mt. Doom. It’s impossible to get it right for any number of reasons, among them: it’s impossible to know anything about the emotional state of any team, it’s very difficult to know very much about 68 individual teams, and, importantly, relatively few people are experts.
Which pretty much rules this joint out.
So we’re going to do a few things differently this year as we work towards our final picks. First, let’s rule out the teams we don’t think have a snowball’s chance of winning:
- Norfolk State
- Appalachian State
- Missouri
- Creighton
- UCSB
- Ohio
- USC
- Wichita State
- Drake
- Eastern Washington
- Oregon
- VCU
- Grand Canyon
- Mt.