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Yeah, predicting the Final Four is tough and it's definitely not a science. It taps into that part of the brain effected by cocaine and gambling (especially gambling). The analysts like Packer (not sports journalists like King) are basically tarot card readers for money. Yeah, Packer would have been right if all the MVC and CAA teams fell out in the first round, and he's wrong now that three mid-majors are in the Swt 16, but the audience has to learn to take the Vitals, Phelps, and Packers with a grain of salt. Packer should not have decried the mid-majors during the selection. He's eating crow now but what's to stop him next year if Cal State-Hayward gets in instead of Louisville?
And speaking of Packer, I like CBS's minimalist presentations but their announcers stink. The Gumbel/Marino/Sharpe/Esaison locker room gaffawing is about a sophomoric as it gets. The play by play game calling isn't much better.
