Reflecting on the Tournament + Update

 Two Weeks Later

    Good evening! I know that this is long overdue, but I believe that I should come around to it at some point, as well as hint at what may be to come for the future.

Where was I?

    Simply put, I had a lot of the regular teenage stuff to do: the third marking period was winding down, and like many virtual children, I wasn't exactly the most on top of my stuff. I had to grind pretty hard to end the quarter. More importantly, however, my grandma unexpectedly passed and we had to attend her funeral. And because of tradition, this meant that a solid week of my life was spent up in New York to mourn her death.

Finally Right For Once

    Throughout this tournament, I have (almost without fail) made unscientific predictions that made perfect sense in my head, but turned out to be completely wrong. When we got to the Final Four, this trend completely reversed. Not only was I correct with the entire Final Four, but I was also mostly correct with margins and who would cover the spread. I was rather surprised that UCLA pushed Gonzaga to overtime instead of losing by about 10, and that the Zags got outplayed so hard by Baylor, but after the Bulldogs cheated death in what will go down as an all time classic, I felt confident in my prediction that Baylor would take down the undefeated. The fact that the betting line was still Gonzaga -5 was a complete shock when it realistically should have been -1 or PK. If I was allowed to do sports betting, I would have certainly bet on Baylor to win against the spread, if not make a money-line bet in the Bears' favor.

Next Season?

    Don't worry. I am fully aware that I do not post consistently enough to be a reliable college basketball source. My posting has been sporadic at best, and only around the time that the NCAA Tournament is on the horizon or in full swing. I will be looking to change that this year and follow the sport more year round, going from scouting to pre-season rankings to early season projections. Of course, I will still be doing what I'm interested in the most, which is the bubble and the selection process. If I could keep this up semi consistently for several months, and get my bracket projections into The Bracket Matrix for the 2021-22 season, consider the first full year back from COVID a success.