Defending Champs Storm Back, Kids From Harvard Are Smaht

West Amherst (AP) - The defending co-champions, the Win-Doctors, stormed back after taking the goose egg on Thursday to four out of five on Friday. Buoyed by blowout wins by all four teams (Duke, Michigan, Kansas and Illinois) the Win-Docs showed their mettle in Calcutta play.


I mentioned to a few of you the other day that some Harvard kid came up with an algorithmic pattern to predict upsets. He hit on his top 3 upsets based on his model with Marquette, VCU and Richmond. Quite amazing. He also had Morehead State with a 11%+ chance to upset Louisville (only 5% of the country went with Morehead in the 5.9 million ESPN brackets). Moral of the story: Kids from Hahvad are wicked smaht.


The Catholic Boyz fell one win short of the first round record, amassing six victories, only the upset loss by Georgetown (Virginia Commonwealth is a fine university) kept them from etching themselves into Calcutta lore. Round 2 is where the rubber hits the road and five teams are stalking the hot early pace set by the Boyz and are within striking distance.


The Counselors looked a little hung over from celebrating their St. Patty's Day victories and posted a goose egg on Friday, hurt badly by the upset loss by Xavier in Cleveland and a tough 2-point loss by Memphis against Arizona. Big games loom today for all four remaining teams for the attorneys at large.


The Bunch of Chieftans were propelled by the upset win by Marquette (who looks scary good going into the Syracuse game) bolstered the Bunch's chances to have a chance at the repeat. Notre Dame held serve against the MAC's representative, Akron to help the Bunch achieve the four win mark and stay in the hunt.


They always seem to hang around, and this year is no different. The Elder Statesman grabbed a nice upset win from VCU, disparaged by pundits for making the field, and obviously channeling it as locker room wall fodder incentive. Texas looked a little shaky holding off a pesky Oakland squad but got it done for the Elders.


The Amigos, trying to reverse Calcutta fortune and avoid the early dismissal (the fat lady isn't even humming yet) posted two solid wins on Friday with #2 seed UNC and #5 seed Arizona taking care of business. Their two lower seeds take the court today and will need an upset of one of the two to continue down the road.


Perennial doormats, the Commish took a couple tough ones on the chin early with Tennessee getting pummeled and Oakland losing a tough contest with Texas, but the ole' Commish stormed back with a #7 seed Washington late-night victory and a surprising #10 seed win by Florida State to barely remain alive. Top seed Pitt goes today and is the Commish's best shot at sticking around to get a little blog print.


The Tax Men, projected longshot along with the Commish, find themselves sitting right where we thought they'd be. But #12 seed Richmond takes on #13 Morehead State in a completely winnable game and the Tax Men could come out of the weekend with six wins. As they say in Monty Python's Holy Grail: "we're not dead yet."


Round 2 recap on Sunday night....enjoy!