Are Your Brackets AND Your Budget Busted?

March 23, 2012

Last weekend, Lehigh beat Duke in the NCAA basketball tournament.  Norfolk State beat Missouri.  Ohio University (a small school), not Ohio State (the behemoth), beat the University of Michigan.  Several serious underdogs beat overwhelming favorites.  These were all David vs. Goliath games and 3 of the little Davids won.  That made a lot of alumni at those schools very happy.  Is there any downside?  Only if you are one of the tens of millions of people in this country who, for entertainment purposes only, fill out an NCAA Tournament bracket.  These games are what basketball fans, and non-basketball fans, who fill out NCAA brackets (for those who are unfamiliar, your bracket picks winners of each game up through and including the championship game) call “bracket busters.”  For example, if you had Duke vs. Missouri in the championship game, your bracket is essentially finished before the action has started.  I had Missouri as a team in my Final Four, so my bracket is toast.  Oh well, there’s always next year…. Continue reading “Are Your Brackets AND Your Budget Busted?”