South Region

Your new favorite team: Saint Mary's

Secondary rooting interest: Purdue, overcoming a disastrous injury and still vying for its first Final Four in 30 years

Third choice: Baylor, exhuming its program after scandal and aiming for its first Final Four in 60 years

Regional villain: Duke, winner of three national titles and participant in 14 Final Fours ........THERE IS MORE!!

East Region

Your new favorite team: Cornell

Secondary rooting interest: Washington, a No. 11 seed shooting for its first Final Four since 1951

Third choice: West Virginia, aiming for its first Final Four since 1959

Regional villain: Kentucky, winner of seven national titles and participant in 14 Final Fours ....THERE IS MORE!!

Midwest Region

Your new favorite team: Northern Iowa

Secondary rooting interest: Tennessee, aiming for its first Final Four after kicking star player Tyler Smith off the team in January

Third choice: Michigan State, which has won two national titles and played in seven Final Fours

Regional villain: Ohio State, which has won one national title and been to 10 Final Fours and has superstar Evan Turner after having superstars Greg Oden and Mike Conley three years ago ....THERE IS MORE!!


West Region

Your new favorite team: Butler, aiming for its first Final Four in its hometown

Secondary rooting interest: Xavier, also from outside the "big six" conferences and aiming for its first Final Four

Third choice: Kansas State, trying to make its first Final Four since 1964

Regional villain: Syracuse, gunning for its second national title and fifth Final Four ... THERE IS MORE!!

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/tournament/2010/columns/story?columnist=forde_pat&id=5023685

So the low seed is the favorite and the high seed the villian. Stellar work Forde

bases_loaded wrote: So the low seed is the favorite and the high seed the villian. Stellar work Forde

+1

From the article: "At least one charming underdog and one insufferable overdog remain in every regional."

Seriously? Ohio State with 1 national title is an "insufferable overdog"?

Yeah, that was just stupid. I root for the underdogs to an extent as well. But at some point I want my later round games to feature the better teams. I wouldnt be able to be excited about a Saint Marys vs Cornell Final Four match-up. Id MUCH rather watch UK vs Duke even though I hate both programs.

I like Pat Forde, but good God that article was awful.

I'm a big "root for the underdog" guy during the NCAA tournament, but yeah...this article sucked and looked to be the sort of "phone it in because I gotta write something today and I got NOTHING" kind of piece.

Agree with what everyone has already said, what a joke.

And it certainly didn't warrant a thread here.

Pointing out the ridiculous nature of sports jounalism that feeds the weak of mind is always worthy of note.

What a piece of hackery.

And it certainly didn't warrant a thread here.

Did someone make you read and comment?? Chill out. It is an article, not a LITERARY masterpiece. Take for what it is worth.

Oh the irony...

Prescott,the thread's cool--it got a reaction and 10 posts so far,didn't it??

ytownfootball wrote: Pointing out the ridiculous nature of sports jounalism that feeds the weak of mind is always worthy of note.

What a piece of hackery.

Agreed. There are good writers and good columns out there. This, on the other hand, was a lazy piece of drek that could have been summarized to, "If a school has success, you should hate them; but if they're an underdog, THEY KICK ASS, BROHEIM!!!" For that reason alone, it was entertaining in its own special way.

Some articles aren't meant to be taken seriously. I'm quite sure this is one of them.

Sure the article sucked, but if that () gets to the Final Four and should somehow beat Turner and Ohio State (if the Buckeyes make it there), f*** yes.