Welcome to Monday: your brackets are worthless

Whoa. You know the time you took to painstakingly fill out your brackets? The care you took in assessing teams' strengths? After Thursday, most people were feeling pretty good. And then, then came Friday. And then the sun rose again on Saturday to ruin things even more. 


Then the Steelers lost on Sunday.


Hey Pac 10! Wha' hap'in? - (Mike LaFontaine reference) Baylor, Kentucky, Texas A&M, Colorado State, Northern Iowa, and especially Hawaii get free lunch in any Big Ten, SEC, or Big 12 town in America for the rest of the year. 


And don't get too cozy, Stanford - Did you enjoy St. Mary's? Wow they got after it. Lauren Corp was a complete nutball with 25 kills and hitting almost .400. Nut. Ball. But Klineman and Lichtman once again put the Cardinal on their backs and carried them to a game 5 win. 


Hawaii! - Does anyone feel more vindicated today than Hawaii? Shoji, preach it like you teach it: "The Pac-10 supposedly was the premier conference." POW. That's how you debate.


Carico's hindsight is quite good, thankyouverymuch - OK, Taylor Carico might be feeling pretty good, too. Plus she got further in the tournament than sister Lane. That's good Xmas dinner table fodder.


ACC: 5 teams enter, 4 teams leave - Not exactly Thunderdome numbers, but outside of 3rd-seeded FSU, no ACC team made it out of the first round.


Pop quiz, hotshot - Quick, off the top of your head, when was the last time Texas A&M was in the Sweet 16? Don't know? Me neither. THAT's how long. Great year in College Station, helping ensure that at least one Big 12 team will make it to the Final Four.