5 Things Learned from Watching the 2011 NCAA Tournament

We've stormed ahead past the round of 64, hoped over the sweet sixteen, and did the electric slide through the elite eight. The 2011 NCAA Final Four shocked many, and this years champion has had their shiny moment. After watching most of the games this year, I've come to the following conclusions regarding the tournament.

Expansion is good.
While I still refuse to recognize the play in games as being in the first round, adding a handful of teams to the already ginormous bracket has turned out to be a good thing. The tournament has been exciting. I didn't expect any of them to win after they advanced past the initial faux round. anyone who payed attention to the regular seeding probably thought the same thing. Which leads me to my point.

Knowing nothing is a good thing.
Being a collage basketball analyst isn't that hard. If you know the buzzwords and phrases(bigs, upside, defend the paint, score the basketball) you can pretty much fake your way threw your entire career. the old lady who enjoys caring for her 12 cats, looking for Easter eggs in her Murder She Wrote DVD collection, and who's totally winning your office pool for the 8th consecutive year could get a job at CBS, and end up being the most credible person on staff. Why is that?

Seeding means squat.
Whenever you fill out a bracket, make sure to use a magic marker to blot out the seed numbers next to all teams. It's a crap shoot. Seeding in collage sports is a lot like brushing your teeth in the morning, then going outside to eat a handful of gravel.The brushing is rendered useless once you begin to crew of tiny rocks for nourishment. The randomness of you eating gravel that's been outside on the dirty, dirty ground, rivals that of a team like VCU Crushing Georgetown. Speaking of which...

Cinderella is fearless.
Virginia Tech Commonwealth made it to the Final Four. Let that sink for a minute. Nothing that was said in that schools general direction by Jay Bilas, and everyone else mic'd up on Selection Sunday really matters at this point. Whether or not they deserved to be in the tournament is a moot point. They were given a shot, and ripped their opponents hearts out, then showed it to them, then fed it to beagle that was walking by. I sure as heck didn't see any of this coming.

Having one bracket sucks.
And because I didn't see this coming, I had to sit back, and watch VCU Take a big bloody hatchet to my lowly, singular(uno) Yahoo! bracket. The same Yahoo! bracket in which I thought that Duke would square off against Georgetown in the finals. obviously having a whole mess of themed brackets is the way to go when it comes to the NCAA Tournament. That's the only true way of keeping the Madness in check.