How could I be so stupid?

• So much for MSU and UNC being two superpowers meeting in the second round.  Both took turns fucking me in each of my brackets.  Now I’m dead in one and in serious trouble in the other.  This is the last time I take a team to go far because “they perform well in the tournament” or because they remind me of a team that did well in the past.  UNC was clearly too young and didn’t look like they belonged in the tournament at all, barely surviving in the first round before losing to George Mason in the second. I badly need Uconn to not reach the Final Four and for Villanova to at least reach the final game.
• You want to know why Cuba and Japan, who have none and one major league stars (and maybe players) respectively made it farther than teams like the US and Dominican Republic, whose roster was filled with big leaguers?  It was partially the fact that teams like Cuba were in midseason form, but in addition, while major leaguers are just preparing for the REAL season to start, players from Cuba, Japan, and Korea are using this as a chance to prove that they can play in the major league.  What better way to prove you belong in a league than beating the best it has to offer?