CBS MMOD

Props to CBS' March Madness On Demand. They really outdid themselves this year. As mistercellaneous and I discussed earlier, the video quality is amazing.

Meandering Tourney Thoughts

12:21 PM: Butler v. LSU to open. Meh. Capacity crowd on hand.

12:30 PM: Switching to CS-Northridge v. Memphis. Matadors up 9-4 early...

1:19 PM: Two out of my three early picks are looking crappy. Thanks Butler and BYU. At least Memphis is up by 3... to 15 seed CS-Northridge.

1:51 PM: Mels from CS-Northridge just drills a three and we're tied at 40 with 15:00 left.

1:53 PM: Another three and Northridge is up one with 13:52 left in the game.

2:06 PM: Northridge is playing out of their minds... bombing threes, getting lose balls. Up 4 with 10 minutes left.

2:20 PM: Northridge running out of gas. Memphis up 4 with 4:00 to go. Looks like LSU and A&M are headed for wins.

2:29 PM: Blah. Memphis won going away.

Presidential Bracket

BHO released his bracket today.

Official White House photo by Pete Souza

Click the brackets for a closer look. Operative BAH and I briefly discussed. A few thoughts:

+ Who crosses out teams on their bracket?? He does this multiple time, most glaringly having the 'Ville as National Champion, then crossing them out and inserting UNC. Flip-flopper? Bleh.

+ Alabama State over Morehead State in the play-in game - WRONG!

+ BAH was unhappy with BHO giving the Arizona schools zero love. I have 'Zona going to the Sweet 16, but I am with Barry re: ASU. I hope Temple takes out those frauds.

+ Claire McCaskill would not be happy with his abbreviation of Missouri. Or DeMarre Carroll.

+ At least he didn't pick Duke. Reggie Love was probably pressuring him to pick them.

Overall, respect to BHO!

Update (6:12 PM): I just watched the Obama / Katz clip on SportsCenter. BHO actually didn't cross out any teams. And he abbreviated Missouri as "Mizzou" - hmm.

And he said picking against 'Zona had nothing to do with McCain. They "squeaked in" according to Barry. He's not high on the PAC 10, in general.