Sunday will be a field day

joe lunardi

The weather hasn’t been very cooperative but, regardless, on Sunday it will be pool weather, so prepare to jump headfirst into it - the NCAA March Madness pool, that is. ESPN will start its wire-to-wire selection coverage with a Bracketology special at 5 p.m. On “SportsCenter” at 6 p.m., immediately after the 65-team field is announced, there will be analysis and features to explain who is in, who is out, and why.
“I thought for a while that the bubble was really soft,” said ESPN.com’s Joe Lunardi, the original Bracketologist. “I think more teams are attempting to play their way in than we normally see. Some of the teams are going to make it in because for some of the bubble teams, the conference tournament might be a little bit more important than normal.”
Lunardi thinks the conference with the most compelling subplots in the East is the Atlantic 10.
“Here you have a conference in which one team that was ranked this year - Dayton - finished eighth,” he said. “Another team that was ranked this year - Rhode Island - finished 11th. A 21-win team was the 11th seed in the tournament. That doesn’t happen in majors, it doesn’t happen in mid-majors, it doesn’t happen in low majors. It’s just a league that did everything it was supposed to do in the nonconference to position teams for an at-large bid and then they started cannibalizing each other. Teams at the top were having really bad losses - UMass losing at home to Fordham, St. Joe’s losing at home to La Salle . . . this league is playing a series of elimination games over the next day or two.”

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6 Responses to “Sunday will be a field day”

  1. Wilson says on March 17th, 2008 at 1:12 pm :

    I’m not talking about convincing anyone of anything.If it becomes too expensive for people to purchase, they will write their own software or purchase from another source. We see governments and businesses switch to Linux all the time.

  2. Emmett says on March 17th, 2008 at 2:02 pm :

    Oh, yes, because you’re so dependent on Windows.

  3. Anima says on March 17th, 2008 at 2:53 pm :

    Personally I would always go for better performance and lower memory consumption since hard drive space is so cheap.

  4. Brittny says on March 17th, 2008 at 3:44 pm :

    Fortunately you’re not the intended market for the OLPC.

  5. Rosalynne says on March 17th, 2008 at 4:34 pm :

    So what? Who cares if it’s open.Don’t confuse the real mission for OLPC with your mission.The OLPC is about getting computers to kids. Not about advancing an anti-comercial software agenda.It would be great if the OLPC (and everything else) ran only capital-F Free software, but there’s no reason is has to. And for the project, the more options it has the better.