I already got beaten in the tournament

Alright, so here are my predictions from yesterday after a day in which three teams that lost to NC State advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament. Correct predictions in bold:

Tennessee over American
Davidson over Gonzaga (Upset special!!!)
Miami over Saint Mary's
Drake over Western Kentucky
Butler over South Alabama
Georgetown over UMBC
Texas over Austin Peay
UCONN over San Diego
UNC over Mount St. Mary's
St. Joseph's over Oklahoma (Upset special!!!)
Vanderbilt over Siena
Oregon over Mississippi State
Indiana over Arkansas
Louisville over Boise State
Villanova over Clemson (Upset special!!!)
Memphis over Texas-Arlington

That's a grand total of 10/16, or .625. Terrible for a single day of the first round. Then again, it's pretty incredible that both of the 12 seeds and both of the 13 seeds won. I wonder if that's ever happened before. Apparently 51 people in the ESPN tournament challenge are 100% right so far which is also pretty amazing given the circumstances. Vegas Watch says the odds of going 64/64 with your tournament picks are "One in around 7.2 trillion. Ouch. If you did this 300 million times, there's a 1 in 23,924 chance that you'd go 64/64 in one. If you did it 6 billion times, it's 1 in 1,197."

Anyhow, the UCONN and WKU games were both particularly exciting, so hopefully that will create some more good matchups on Sunday. But for now here are my picks for tomorrow's matchups:

Duke over West Virginia
Kansas State over Wisconsin (Upset Special!!! Also I hate the Badgers with a passion!)
Xavier over Purdue
Notre Dame over Washington State (Upset Special!!!)
Stanford over Marquette
Kansas over UNLV
Pitt over Michigan State
UCLA over Texas A&M

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Here's something I heard today that I want to share but I know nobody else will actually listen to: The Most Unwanted Song. In 1996, Dave Soldier and Komar & Melamid undertook a project to try and quantify music to create both the most desired and the most undesired songs in the world, based on polling about what kind of genres, lyrics, instrumentation, and similar things that people liked and disliked.

The Most Wanted Song is a pretty boring pop song you could hear on any adult contemporary station, but The Most Unwanted Song is quite the adventure. It starts off with a harmonica/harp cowboy-style intro and segues into an opera singer rapping over tuba beats. It has accordions and bagpipes and childrens' choirs singing about holidays and telling you to "do all your shopping at Wal-Mart!" It's 22 minutes of some of the most incredible sounds you will ever hear. You can listen to it here:

And if you liked it that much, download it here. God how I'd love to play this on WKNC.

"Ramadan, Ramadan, lots of praying with no breakfast!"


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