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It’s [bracket] time!

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Let me be the first to say it: “Who is this year’s George Mason?”

What’s that? 814 people have already said it? Oh…okay.

Well, while you’re drinking your coffee and wondering how Tiger Woods can score so low, how the Denver Nuggets can score so high, and how the Houston Rockets can score more than their opponents 22 straight times, consider these odds and ends about the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament on this “post-selection sunday” Monday morning. (disclaimer: some of these may not be veracious)

• First off, you need to join our Prayers For Blowouts Facebook Bracket Challenge Group. The winner will get a free post here on the Prayers For Blowouts Blog about anything he/she wants, an autographed copy of my book if/when it ever gets published, and 12 months of bragging rights.
• The word “bracket(s)” gets spoken roughly 10.8 million times per year in the U.S., with a whopping 31% of those usages coming in the month of March. (source: my imagination)
• If Disney was paid a royalty fee every time someone said “Cinderella” during March Madness, they would have enough money to purchase Billy Packer’s soul.
• By the Sunday evening of the first weekend of the tournament, the most popular question in America as voted by Elle Magazine is, “Are you still watching basketball?”
• 82% of all folks who fill out brackets for the tournament have skipped out early on class or work to watch the first round games. Personally, I’ve skipped out on both. (source: thin air)
• There are two types of people: Those who wear green on St. Patrick’s Day, and those who do not. That’s right. Check your clothes and tell me which group you fall into.
• Everyone and their mom is going to have UCLA in their Final Four. What’s that? You’re not? Well, there’s a contrarian in every group.
• Want official odds from Vegas? Here you go.
• ESPN’s Joe Lunardi - their resident bracketologist - went 65/65 in picking the teams in the tourney this year. That’s pretty outstanding. Considering Joe Lunard’s sole job at ESPN is to predict the 65 teams, and the fact that he did it perfectly, what do you think he is doing this morning? Sleeping in? Soaking in a hot tub doing pretend interviews with pretend radio shows about how right he was? Rolling around naked in brackets he spent all night printing out on his Lexmark laser printer? Congrats, Joe! Now go get some clothes on and start prepping for 2009.
• Pastor CJ Mahaney disagrees that the best college basketball player of all time was Pete Maravich.
• Still havent joined our Facebook group? What are you waiting for, Gus Johnson to scream at you? Go make it happen.

Tags: NCAA Basketball Tourney