Beware the Idiots of March

College basketball's zany, winding road of a season led to today's brackets.  As crazy as the year was, the analysts on CBS and ESPN seemed to expect everything to turn out in an orderly fashion once the NCAA Tournament kicks off. 

Do they really believe any region will hold to form, THIS year, of all years?

No team was able to hold onto the #1 ranking for long, and teams tended to launch on losing streaks once they rose up into the Top 5.  The only consistency was inconsistent play from week to week.  Every time the media was ready to anoint a team as the favorite to win it all, that favored son would embarrass its father with an image burning loss.  Gonzaga backed into the #1 ranking in the last few polls, and kept it by default.

I didn't listen to all commentary wire-to-wire on the selection shows, but I don't remember hearing anyone pick Wichita State to make the Final Four.  Yet WuShock has as good of a chance as anyone to make it to the Promised Land.  This Tournament is wide open, and a coin flip is as good of a method as any to pick winners.

In fact, I plan to pick a bracket by coin-flip.  I will post my results soon.

College basketball's weirdness isn't going to end at the gates of the play-in games.  Shocks that will set the sport on its ear are on the way.  We know all the #1 seeds won't miss the Final Four just because Digger predicted that outcome.  Just about anything else goes.