just gonna crow a second: on my ncaa bracket i had 14 of the 16 teams that advanced yesterday, including a bunch of upsets. my rank is 144 on the nytimes contest, which i figure probably is out of some tens or hundreds of thousands. i rock, beeches! now on the other hand i had marquette in the final four, so that loss ramifies throughout. and no doubt today will not be as fortunate. however, if the md terps win it all i'm golden.