Grab your NCAA tournament bracket. Look at your Final Four. We're sure you've made justifiable and educated guesses on who will make it that far. Does it look anything like what you imagined it would in the preseason? And, with that in mind, are you prepared for being really, really wrong?
When we make sports predictions, we lean on past experience. We look at personnel and coaches and perhaps dig into statistical patterns. More often than not, we are wrong. But it's not about being right. It's about playing the speculative game, which is as much a part of being a fan as watching the actual season transpire before us.