Zanzibar Brackets

A quick update from the brackets in our house before any new scores dash hopes.  (Come on Georgia Tech--can you turn your cell phones long enough to get some sound advice?)

First, in the possible points remaining category, no one is setting on a bigger pile of chips than nine-year-old hoopssayer Maggie Lou.  She entered reluctantly, perhaps recalling her misfortune last year when I put the wrongs teams down for her.  She took heart, however, when she recalled that when Franklin was 2 and she was 5, they placed 2nd and 5th respectively.  And now she may be in 14th place, but that's a fine place to be now, drafting off her elders.  She picked Cornell to win this one, and who isn't pulling for the Ivy League?

And while we're pulling for Cornell, let me give special mention to a first time McDowHoops participant Bryna Harr!ngton who has the Big Red winning the whole enchilada.  Bryna is a recent graduate of everyone's favorite four-letter school and is living with us this year in Zanzibar and working as a research assistant for Alison.  She is a proud resident of Maine, and her choices were generally governed by which school was closer to her home state.  Thus a highly unlikely (and now impossible) Final Four of Maryland, Vermont, Louisville, and Cornell.  And in that match up, with the way Cornell is playing, they could win the national championship.

Luckily, I had the foresight of entering Obma's bracket under my name to keep Greg, the Yankee Interloper, from crowing at the top of the list.  Otherwise, both my real-ish bracket and my graduation rate bracket have been Farokmaneshed.  My only hope is West Virginia going all the way because I'm the only one in our group who picked them.