Bracket Busters

Gotta top seed you wanna topple? Who you going to call? Bracket Busters: St. Mary's, Cornell, and Northern Iowa. There was plenty of sobbing and shredding over the weekend after those 3 teams decked Nova, Wisconsin, and the best basketball team in the land, Kansas. That's a 10 seed taking out a 2; a 12 seed whipping a 4; and a 9 seed booting the over-all top pick back to Kansas from the land of Oz. It was a rude awakening for the major conferences. But that's what we love about the tournament. The feel good story. The mini Davids with their slingshots ravaging predictability and order. Did anyone really know where Moraga, CA was before the tournament? Or heard of a kid called Samhan? How about Cornell? A bunch of slow pasty white kids plodding up and down the court. Can they really slamajama in the Ivies? And then there's Northern Iowa. Now the land of Ali Farokhmanesh. Who? Ali Farokhmanesh. The kid who sent the Jayhawks crying to the showers; the kid who hit the dagger, the clutch 3 point shot at the end of the game; the ultimate bracket buster who felled Goliath and gave us one of the most memorable games in NCAA history...that's as good as it will ever get. And we say that every year.