That said, when it came time to fill out our brackets, it was no surprise that ours was rather close to Lunardi’s…and we based this on the fact that he obviously studied every team all year long and should have a good handle on who was over/underseeded. Let it be known Joey Brackets is a fraud. Our brackets are an irrefutable disaster…and the only saving grace is that we chose Syracuse to be cutting the nets down in Indy this year (no surprise there…we pick them to win the NCAA tournament every year…even when they’re in the NIT).

We stumbled across an amazing story today about a Chicago area teen, Alex Hermann, who has both autism and a perfect bracket through two rounds! No kidding! You may have picked Cornell to be this far (we did), but you were probably drunk and picked Murray State to be here too (we were). Do you have any idea what the odds are of picking the entire first two rounds correctly (we do)? They happen to be 1 in 13,460,000. We don’t know why or how, those are just the odds. We read it on the internets, so we are pretty sure it’s true. The odds have to be pretty high, because we’ve never done it. So that’s good enough for us. Read the article here.

I feel for the kid, because he can’t possibly go perfect for the whole tournament as he has Purdue winning it all and Syracuse bowing out to K-State this weekend. He let his heart get involved (we always do too).

Here is Alex’s perfect bracket…if you want to follow along at home (we do):