The daily buzz: Minnesota edition (subscription - PDF) reports that there are no longer any perfect brackets among the 3.3 million entries received at espn.com. Near the bottom of the article is a a quote in a section titled, "You could be doing worse..."
"211 people picked Belmont to win the national title. You might have noticed Belmont lost 78-44 in the first round to UCLA (my emphasis), which puts it about as far away from winning a championship as possible."First of all, let's salute the fact that this article recognized that Belmont actually played in the first round THIS year...perhaps whoever wrote the article should apologize to Georgetown for confusing them with UCLA (Belmont's first round opponent LAST year).
Secondly, those 211 people who picked Belmont to go all the way are really fine people...optimists every one and likely to know more about the quality of Belmont's athletic program than any reporter who can't do basic homework on pairings.
It is true that Belmont will not be holding up a championship trophy or cutting down the nets on national television any time soon...but make no mistake that there are national quality,champion student-athletes at Belmont University (and journalism students who know the difference between Georgetown and UCLA).