Three weeks from now, you're going to wish this got posted a few days earlier. Three weeks from now, when someone else is getting the pay-out from your office pool, you're going to hate me. Why? Well, because this post contains a bracket, filled out by yours truly, which contains the correct choices for all of the games in the 2009 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament.
Technically speaking the odds of picking each and every game in the tournament correctly is 150,000,000 to one. You have a better chance of having an accident with a chainsaw (1 in 4464), or dying on a bicycle (1 in 4472) than picking perfection (in case you're wondering the answer is yes, I did just type "odds of things happening" into Google). I, of course, have a better chance of getting all the games right because, well, I already did. The reason that's true, though, is because I was required by Act of Congress to withhold my bracket from you until only hours before tip-off.
Feel free to leave comments, if you want. Keep in mind, though, that three weeks from now you might look silly. Let me just point a few things out to you…
This article appears in Mar 18-24, 2009.