Five People You Don't Want in Your Office Pool

Yesterday was an awesome first day of the tournament. A buzzer beater, three overtime games (last year had two OT games all tournament), Notre Lame forgetting to show up, a 14-seed Ohio toppling Georgetown. Good stuff. I so wanted Bob Morris to knock off Villanova, but what can ya do? It may have been the best first day ever. I'm sure that there will be a lot of bracket banter nationwide this morning. "Oh, I picked them." "So and so killed me." Save it. IASID lists five people you don't want in your office pool:

1. The guy who walks into the office and proclaims to anyone in earshot that his bracket is done -- Nobody asked, dude. Unless you had Georgetown or Notre Dame in the Final Four (and if you did, that's your fault), odds are you aren't done. And even if you overpicked teams from the Big Least, let people ask you before you cry from the balcony.

2. The chick who finishes the pool in the top three -- Of course she picked Ohio University because green is her favorite color. Northern Iowa wears purple - much prettier than UNLV's black and red. Washington wears purple - it should have been obvious they would upset Marquette. Oye.

3. The guy who submits five brackets -- When you fill out enough brackets to have nearly every scenario down, you just took the fun out of everything. If you don't see a return on your investment, you're a huge sucker. But, if you do get cash back, I'm not going to give you credit anyway. You're the Yankees of your pool. Fill out two brackets, maximum, anymore than that and I'm rooting against you - hard.

4. The guy who picks his alma mater to go to the Final Four -- when his diploma reads North Texas. -- The guy who runs the pool has already thrown that bracket out for it represents the Pittsburgh Pirates. Newsflash: the Pirates aren't winning the 2010 World Series. Even if said guy is easy money, I'd rather outpick people who know that Robert Morris had no shot against Villanova...right?

5. And finally, there will be a guy who walks into the office and explains exactly why he picked Ohio to beat Georgetown -- "I knew Armon Bassett and DJ Cooper would get hot from three. With the way Ohio plays defense, it was obvious that Georgetown would turn it over 18 times. I knew the Bobcats would want it more." Ok Digger Phelps. It's one game worth one point. We don't need a babbling15 minute recap.

Hopefully day two resembles day one. I wouldn't mind seeing Oakland U. or Morgan State pulling off the improbable. Oh by the way, my bracket is done and my wife's day one was better than mine. See.

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