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Yesterday, I posted about the start of the NCAA basketball tournaments, also known as March Madness. Here’s how my pics are going after day 1 of the men’s tournament.

• The highlighted schools are my picks
• X = games i got wrong
• check marks = games I got right.

As I mentioned before, I’m not a huge college basketball fan, but I’ll share some of my observations from my picks:

• I successfully picked the winners from 9 of the 16 games. Not great but not terrible either.
• Right out of the gate TCU beating Ohio State killed my bracket but the 8/9 pairings are usually a toss-up as to who will win.
• Did anyone see #11 VCU beating North Carolina??
• For some dumb reason, I took #15 Idaho beating #2 seed Houston. Every year I’m always trying to look for a Cinderella story. 🤦‍♂️
• #12 High Point upset #5 Wisconsin and Brie this Badger Dad’s heart.
• #11 Texas beat #5 seed BYU in a mild upset
• I agonized over #8 Georgia and #9 St Louis. I was initially picking St. Louis. I should have stuck with my gut.
• I’m currently ranked 20,003,298 on ESPN’s March Madness bracket Challenge. .

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