Prior to Wednesday night, I could think of exactly zero times in my life when Wake Forest beat Louisville in, well, anything and I had a reason to be unhappy about this development. The Bracket Matrix tells us that because the Demon Deacons could beat a team from Kentucky this week and Vanderbilt couldn’t, Wake is now in the tournament and we’re not.
But that’s life on the bubble in March. Rooting interests get weird. Some madness is fine; Rutgers beating Illinois is fine. Most madness is not fine. We want fellow bubble teams to take dumb losses, not beat teams they’re not supposed to.