Sex, Dick Vitale, and Michigan State

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OOH BABY!!!!!!!

Now you decide. Was yours truly having sex while writing this post, or did I get caught up in Dick Vitale mode while watching college hoops? Answer below.

The NCAA "committee", which is just a tad more secretive than the CIA on steroids, has made their selections to fill out the brackets. As usual, some higher seedings appear logical, others are head-scratchers, and the lower half of the teams are just there to give the big boys somebody to play in the early rounds. Basically cannon fodder to fill an arena somewhere. Such schools collect a big check, and get brief national TV exposure, but their teams are also in line for a serious dose of shock and awe that would have made Dick Cheney proud -- if anybody could find him. Sorry. Ahem.

Yet something extrordinary has occurred before the Big Dance even starts. The smartest people on the entire planet -- utter geniuses (sometimes known as ESPN analysts) -- have already weighed in and are unanimous in their opinion of which team will cut down the nets as champions when the final whistle blows.

Michigan State.

Far be it from yours truly to question the collective Nostradamesque wisdom of 5 obviously superior minds, but MSU being their unanimous choice is a bit of a head scratcher itself -- for some of us common folks with inferior intellects.

After all, the Spartans go into the tournament as merely a #4 seed. Given there's four different sub-brackets of 16 teams each, that means the above mentioned "committee" has deemed MSU to be somewhere between the 13th and 16th best overall team in the tournament. Further, that would roughly correspond with their current national ranking.

But before the official madness even begins, all the "experts" are picking Michigan State to win it all. Interesting indeed.

Memo to Tom Izzo and the Spartan players. Though you will be collectively under a microscope for the next three weeks, with your every move analyzed and dissected, and though you will be considered a disappointment -- and likely ripped by the talking heads -- if you wind up anything short of champions --- no pressure.

Answer to original question.

Both. Nothing like getting it on while doing a little writing, and Dick Vitale has a way of pumping a guy up -- if you know what I mean.

Just kidding.......