Do 12-seeds beat 5-seeds even more often when the 5-seed’s football team beat the 12-seed’s by 36 points four months ago?
The Wisconsin Badgers are in the NCAA Tournament…as a 12-seed!
Every good college hoops fan knows – heck, even bad college hoops fans know – the most likely place to see a tournament upset is in a 5-seed vs. 12-seed game.
And here we are, at the 12-seed, playing…
…the Florida St. Seminoles!
Those of my particular geographic bent will recall that the Seminoles beat – no, embarrassed - us Badgers with a 49-13 drubbing in the Champs Bowl on December 27. It was ugly, made even uglier by the fact that a good friend of mine is a Florida St. alumnus.
And there was trash talking. And it was good. And then we got whooped.
And now, here we are.
As my g-g-g-good friend k-k-k-Ken Pile would say: “…..revenge!”
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If the game were only 35 minutes long, they might. I just don’t see this 5-12 split happening though.
I just hope they play after the Care Bea…er, Golden Chickens so the Badgers can say they were the last team standing.
Comment by steveegg | March 15, 2009