First of all, I’d like to apologize for the month-long hiatus between my last blog entry and this one.  I’ve pretty much been too busy celebrating my amazing Norfolk State pick and Kentucky’s eighth national championship to sit down and write my annual recap of the most recent college basketball season.  The past few tournaments have produced great upsets, fantastic finishes, and heart-warming Cinderella stories, but have all ended sadly with a team I disliked winning the ultimate championship.  In fact, there hasn’t been a national champion who I didn’t despise since Kansas in 2008.  Well, 2012 was the year of redemption for me as not only did several special upsets happen, but the tournament ended with the University of Kentucky (my favorite team growing up) being crowned NCAA champion.  Sure, this year’s tourney wasn’t perfect.  My alma mater didn’t make the field (Wake Forest), there wasn’t a single buzzer beater (or anything close to one really), and not a single late round Cinderella story emerged to captivate us all.  Nevertheless, 2012 might go down as my all-time favorite NCAA tournament for several reasons which I will highlight below.

Here’s my 2012 tourney bracket.  Just for the record, I had Syracuse winning it all before the Melo suspension.  Hope you all love my huge first round upset!

http://games.espn.go.com/tournament-challenge-bracket/en/entry?entryID=1368748