March Madness

Email from 3/3


Hi All,
Can you feel the excitement starting to build? I find myself waking up at like 1am and opening up my laptop to check Bracketology to see if its been updated. Yea I have March Madness. And thats not even getting into the fact that I have a laptop with a wireless connection sitting next to my bed at all times.
Anyway, heres the schedule.
2 more regular season Badger games. Wed at Penn State, Sat vs Northwestern for Senior day.
Then starting the next Thursday (March 14th) is the Big Ten Tourney. Bucky will be getting a #1 or #2 seed there. If its a #1 they play at 11am Friday and if they win at 12:40 sat. If they're a #2 they play at 5:30 Friday and with a win 3:00 sat.
Its about 50-50 whether they get the #1 seed. Assuming they win their last 2 (they will be heavy favorites in both games) it'll come down to how Purdont does on the road twice, Ohio State and Michigan. Purdont is young. Lets hope they lose 1. Since Purdont wept us they would win the 2 team tiebreaker for the #1 seed. #1 seed is very important because that team avoids a possible match up with Indiana until the finals. The tourney is in Indianapolis so its like a home court for the Indiana Fighting Cellphones. Ok so then the Big Ten final is like at 2 or something on Sunday. Too late to effect the seedings for the NCAAs.
Those seedings come out at 5pm on Sunday the 16th.
Bucky is sitting on a pretty solid #3 right now with 4 games left that will determine seedings. If they sweep those 4 (they will be heavy favorites in 3 of them), you're probably looking at a #2 seed. If they lose the 4th game which would be the Big Ten semifinals. They're probably still a 3. If they lose in the big ten opening round they could slip to 4. Im not even entertaining the possibility that they'll lose to Penn State or Northwestern. (And theres the gooch. I can see it now, Penn State 56 - Wisconsin 55)
Taking a quick look at the Market Golden Eagle Warrior Hawk Hilltopper Gold side of the ledger. You know how late in the season, if a team has an open date theres usually 2 ways to play it. A) take the day off and rest before tourney action. Wisconsin did this. Gets everybody healthy for the stretch run. B) go on the road and play a tough non-conf game. Coach K down at Duke likes to do this. He feels it gets the team ready for the inhospitable environment and keeps the rhythm going.
What usually isnt good for a team is to play a squash at home. You end up playing the scrubs or the seniors who never get off the bench. Plus playing that type of game only can get players into bad habits or worse get them hurt. Players dont play these games all out and thats where injuries happen.
Market plays "Florida Gulf Coast" on Tuesday.
And thats all I have to say about that.
The site is at the same URL as always
http://dusty.dyndns.org/pools/poolentry/pool_other.asp
Entry fee remains the same $10 as always.
Defending Champions are John Hemming and Dan Collins who set the all time record with 204 points each last year.
Oh and one more thing, the Eisenhower Lion Boys Basketball team has reach the the State Tournament this year. The semi final game will be played at the Kohl Center at 3:30ish this Friday.
IKE! IKE!
Go Bucky!