Cliche' Sunday

As I sit here on a rainy Sunday morning awaiting the Holiest of Holy for college basketball fans, the NCAA Tournament Selection Show, I wonder, is black smoke coming out of the chimney at Selection HQ?

And are Papal chimney jokes now too cliche' and over-used?

Speaking of over-used cliche's, on this Day of Days, what could challenge the following:

"Nobody wants to play us!"

Without exception, until beaten, the fans of 68 teams will utter that phrase with chest-thumping self-assurance for the next three weeks.

Underdogs?  Nobody wants to play us.
Top seeds?  Nobody wants to play us.
Mid-Majors? Nobody wants to play us.
Conference Champions?  Nobody wants to play us.

Everyone logically presents an argument for why nobody wants to play their team.  But the arguments are just as cliche' as the big cliche'.

No easy outs exist in college basketball's Big Dance.  It's a fallacy to say "Nobody wants to play us" because the next question is, well, who do they want to play, then?

In reality, the opposite of the cliche' is true.