Explanation of the BCEEEEWTSWEX

by Staff

Folks, the tourney has started and brackets are already being ripped to shreds. Vanderbilt losing to Murray State was a bad one. Georgetown's crapping of the bed against Ohio was a murderous one for those who fell in love with the Hoyas' physical game. Notre Dame's loss was... expected, actually, while Richmond was a great sleeper pick for everyone until St. Mary's ran them over.

The BCEEEEWTSWEX, which is linked here (also linked previously), must now be explained further. We have our real brackets in there: "Iroquois Legit," "Annie D.'s" and "Slate For Reals" are the ones to watch to actually compete against.

But we have other ones. Iroquois has his chalk bracket, which is very "yawn" inducing, but the Mascots on a Sandwich bracket is far more interesting. It is exactly what its name implies. If your mascot tastes better on a sandwich, you win. Texas is his winner there because, let's face it, a Bevo Burger sounds great. Oddly enough, as of 9:30 on the first day, that bracket is winning the pool and is in the 99th percentile.

Slate has his Homer bracket, where he picks which team he hates less as the winner and his Mom's bracket, who is none too pleased to hear that the Gators exited this afternoon. But it is the Mascot battle, which is probably the ballsiest bracket ever. After assembling a crack squad of experts, it was determined who would win the matchup based on who would win in fight between the nicknames. Obviously the Musketeers would beat the Gophers and the Cougars would beat the Terrapins. But what about the Big Red versus the Owls? It was determined that an Owl would choke on Big Red bubble gum... thus the Big Red moves on. The testicular fortitude came with the fact that the SCHOOL doesn't matter. So as it turns out, all of the #1 seeds went out in the first round because they are all wimpy. The Orangemen? They get eaten by the Catamounts. The Jayhawks? They get killed by the Mountain Hawks. It was a fun bracket to fill out, but one that doomed to absolute failure.

We'll keep you posted in the coming days on how things go.