The first day of the NCAA Tournament is complete. In the one tournament I have money on, I am in second place, with 14 correct out of 16. The two people ahead of me each had USC going to the Sweet 16, and one had them going to the Elite 8, so I consider myself ahead of them.

Jacob pointed out that the Facebook bracket doesn’t have a tie-breaker for the championship game. Usually you guess the final score. With a bracket pool as large as Facebook – with hundreds of thousands of people – there are bound to be several hundred people tied for the high score. I guess they’re going to declare a 900 way tie. Really a major oversight.

Further it’s telling me that I was wrong picking Texas A&M, and that Texas A&M really won. Boy do I feel foolish.

Today was Selection Sunday. I have not been able to watch much college basketball this year – in fact, I couldn’t cite a single game that I’ve watched this year. But, I have been reading Vegas Watch pretty much every day for quite some time. It’s written by my friend Jacob from Emory, and he spends more time than is probably healthy working on this, but he’s getting a lot of impressive recognition from sportswriters in the business. ( Here )

Therefore, I am basing all of my picks on one other person’s research. I’ve found I can’t bank on dumb luck like I could when I was a kid. For those who don’t know the family anecdotes, I won a pool at my father’s office when I was eight for a significant amount of money by betting on 4 Seed Arizona to win it all, and they did. I might as well have thrown a dart at the page, but there you go.

I’ll let you guys know how this works out. Oh, and check out Jacob’s site if you like sports at all.