Today was a special day, officially marking the start of March Madness for 2010. Well, some conferences had already started their tournaments, but in particular the ACC Tournament started today at noon. I was excited to watch what I could, but I had a pretty full slate including a meeting today.
I will say that there have been a lot of upsets so far. I think the lower seed advanced in all the ACC games except one, that being Carolina. I’ll give them this though- they actually played pretty well in the first half and had up to a twelve or so point lead over Georgia Tech, who had already swept the Heels in the regular season. Georgia Tech came out pretty strong in the second half though, and I figured once it got close that they’d pull through and win, which they did.
Syracuse, Villanova and Pittsburgh, all Big East teams, were all upset today too. I just hope all the upsets stop by noon tomorrow, when Duke plays Virginia (who upset Boston College).
On the subject of Duke, they got a verbal commitment from Michael Gbinije (ben-ee-jee?) today. He’s part of the 2011 class and is currently rated as one of the top 15 player in the country. Congrats to both him and Duke University!
Billy Supplee and Cyra Sherburn came over for dinner and The Office tonight. I was in the middle of changing Milly when they got here, but she had gotten up and wandered off before I put a diaper back on her, so we let her greet them at the door like that. This may sound funny, but it’s so cute when she’s crawling around on the floor with her tiny bare butt.
Speaking of Milly crawling around, I’m looking forward to a time when we can get her a kiddie pool. Every time she goes to the kitchen she heads for the water bowl. She likes to put her hand in it and splash it around a little. That girl loves the water, so I think it’s good that she’ll be growing up going to the beach a lot. That’s the plan anyway.
A few weeks ago, Seth and Dana Holloman turned me and Amanda on to an iPhone/iPod app called Words with Friends. It’s basically online Scrabble. Amanda and I had a really close game going, but she won in the end. That was my first loss. So far I’ve beaten a random player and Dana and lost to Amanda. I think I’ll beat Seth and Ben Lambeth, who also has the game. Amanda and I started a new game tonight and we’re also both playing Billy. No idea how those game will go yet.
Zach Dotsey