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Morning, everybody. Just a few hours left to fill out your brackets. I suppose everyone is done but me. Not sure I'll make it this year. Let's get started!

I've never gotten on the Vasquez bandwagon because he sometimes makes inexplicable decisions, but he started to make a believer of me a little this spring. But he does seem to need to feel the world is against him, so maybe there will be some booing fans to inspire him. Maybe even some booing Maryland fans!

I won't call you crazy. But then, I am probably not the voice of authority on crazy when it comes to college hoops. Georgetown could surprise a lot of people. I saw several of the Hoyas' best games this season and when they are on, they are really special. (I still feel the same about Villanova as well.) I just think the lack of depth if going to hurt them at some point. But when those five starters are rolling ... look out. I don't want my boys to play them, although my boys are far, far deeper.

You're kidding, right? :) Well, I have Syracuse, Kansas, West Virginia and Baylor, and I have Kansas winning it all. I have Kansas winning it all every year. I failed to pick Kansas to win it all one year, in 1988. They won it all. I don't fail to pick Kansas to win it all any more. (Seriously, I just can't pick them to lose on a bracket. Tried. Failed. Sometimes I do two brackets but then it makes me feel guilty. I have issues.)

I would hope not. I think he's done quite well this season. The bigger question for me, regarding Georgetown, remains this: Why are players leaving the program so often? It may be as simple as academics; not everyone is cut out for a  Georgetown curriculum. And it happened under Big John as well. I remember getting a fax from Georgetown one Friday afternoon at 5 p.m. -- an old Hoyas trick on newspapers -- announcing a player was joining the French Foreign Legion. Yikes. I think if Thompson could keep a deeper bench he'd be a better coach, but he's done well with what they have.

Yes, it was. Gary has done a tremendous job this season, without a doubt. And Gary is another one who works best when he thinks everyone is out to get him.

I am assuming you are referring to Rock Chalk Jayhawk? That is a chant that was dreamed up by, of all things, a geology professor at KU in the olden days ... before even my time. Chalk refers to chalk deposits, I believe, because let's face it, the guy was a geology professor. It stuck. When the crowd at Allen Field House does it slow -- rooooock chaaaaalk Jaaaaayhawk KUUUUUU -- at the end of a victory, it's pretty cool.

I'm tearing up.

I think the answer is San Diego State, at least one my seat-of-the-pants bracket from Monday's paper. I agree about Cornell; it gave KU a hell of a game and at Allen Field House, which is hard to do. I think Cornell and Temple were both underseeded, but one spot at least.

Well, first I think that region is the easiest. Second, I think Duke is vulnerable. I was torn between picking Nova and Baylor, and I went with Baylor for Big 12 reasons, I guess. I think Baylor is going to make a splash and I think a lot of people will overlook the Bears because they don't get a lot of attention. But they're good.

Agreed. I have always felt for people who had real jobs, because in our department, they are sort of a national holiday. I mean, everyone has to go to work, but there are TVs and a satellite dish so we can get every game if someone is willing to run up and down the stairs often enough. And we'd order in Chinese food and settle in a watch while staffers from other departments wandered over to ask stupid questions, like, "Who's winning?" (The score is on the screen, dude!) Tons of work but a good time. I'm going to miss that this afternoon but I'm still quarantined. Otherwise, I'd be in Providence. Nuts.

Next year, save two vacation days, maybe? I suppose it's impossible to call in sick these two days. If you call in sick, everyone thinks you're faking.

I was a little surprised by this one, but it's beginning to appear that Shanahan wants to bring in guys who will perhaps compel other guys to try harder? Hard for me to judge from the La-Z-Boy. But that seems to be the case with the Larry Johnson signing. The trouble is that that approach works with some people and not others. Will it work with Campbell? Or is his psyche so damaged that it's too late? I am still of the opinion that he should look elsewhere.

The Tim Tebow news is weird, too, and a little scary, because he seems more like a Dan Snyder quarterback than a Mike Shanahan quarterback. But we'll see.

Gary's graduation rate has been written about many times -- hello, Eric Prisbell! -- and the school is aware of it. It is very bad. I don't know if alums care as long as the team is in the tournament. I always check KU's and when it's low I don't like it, but Self has done a pretty good job in that regard. (And in fairness, so did Roy when he was at KU.) Some of the rules for calculating the rates are sort of draconian, but that's no excuse. I think Maryland is having some success in getting players to come back later to finish degrees, but if they don't do in in a certain time frame they aren't credited, as I understand it.

I do think that most schools do everything they can to help players with study halls, etc., and sometimes the failure is on the player. You have to want it or all the help and pushing in the world isn't going to make it happen.