Spiders Man Up

I caught about half of the CBS bracket seedings last Sunday. The proceedings were wedged between 30 second chunks of condescending surliness from the Dodge guy with the deep voice and the shitty attitude. Unfortunately I've been busy enough that I never managed to make out a bracket, especially with the four extra games sneaking up on me on Wednesday night. What a load of crap. Way to dilute your product, CBS.

Speaking of loads of crap, and Dodge, I just saw a Dodge ad where Dodge has their own version of the bat signal. How juvenile. Anyway, while I haven't done a bracket, I have bet on some games, and one of them is already at halftime, so...

Richmond(+3)over Vanderbilt. What little research I've done indicates that this game is a tossup. Richmond was good last year. At halftime Richmond actually trailed by exactly three, but now they are down six, 48-42, 15 minutes to go.

Utah State(+3)over Kansas State. 12 vs. 5. Kansas State is getting screwed here. Utah State should be higher than a 12 seed. Not that KState isn't capable of winning this, but give me the points. Utah State should be seeded higher than Michigan State, for instance. Speaking of which,

Michigan State(-1)over UCLA. Michigan State sucks this year, but they are favored as a 10 seed over a 7 seed, either because the Pac 10 sucks, or because State always seems to make a run in the tournament. State sucks vs. the spread as well, but if they win you at least get a push.

I'm re-listening to Chad Millman on the BS Report, and just found out that Chad, Teddy Covers, and others think Vandy is going to bury Richmond. Oops. On the other hand, Richmond is now up, 55-52...make that it's tied, 55 all.

Michigan State is now favored by 1.5. Hardly a shock that $$ is coming in on the Spartans, despite their dismal season...Richmond is now up, 64-62, four minutes to go. This game need to end, so I can go burn off the beer I'm going to drink later during State-UCLA.

Richmond won, 69-66. Too bad I'm not publishing this until now. Of course, if I had my shit together I wouldn't have bet this game.

Oh yeah. I won my bet on UNC over Duke, but lost my tease on Baylor and the over vs. Texas. Ho-hum.