My Shining Moment

Well, it took ten years of filling out brackets but it finally happened: I won an NCAA pool. Hand me the scissors- I'm about to cut down the nets.

Going into tonight's game, there were three people with a chance to win the 22-person pool. I was tied for first place with another guy who picked UNC and the guy in third place picked Illinois. As I watched the final five minutes of the game, I was of course riveted by Illinois seemingly unstoppable resilience, but I was also thinking about the other competition of the night. While the announcers kept us abreast of Carolina's dwindling margin of victory, I was also keeping an eye on the overall point total because not only did I need the Heels to win, I needed to win the tiebreaker. I had picked a 72-69 score and the 75-70 final was enough to push me over the top.

All credit for my victoy goes to the Crown and Retrace strategy, as this was definitely the right year to fill out the bracket inside-out. Not only did I get both teams in the title game, but I also correctly picked Sean May (who had the best birthday in the history of birthdays) as the Most Outstanding Player. Mr Predicto has gotten the monkey off his back.