Creighton picked a horrible time to forget how to shoot baskets. It was shooting 33% after the first ten minutes, and it finally got up to 40% with 2:57 left in the game, by which time it was down by 28 points. Kansas let the loss of big man Joel Embiid keep them out of the paint in its loss to Stanford. Wichita State lost by two to Kentucky’s group of mercenaries (“One season and off to the NBA!” is the battle cry of Coach Calipari’s “student-athletes”).

I suffered grievous losses today and my bracket is still in the top 1.5% or so of the millions submitted to ESPN. I wish I could say I’d done it with superior analysis.