Upset? It's not my fault

Why is everyone so upset? Have you doused your brackets in lighter fluid yet? Torn them into small pieces in hopes of using them as confetti for UAB's victory parade?\nI haven't -- at least not yet. I don't mean to gloat, but in all sincerity, I do. \nIn my last column, I previewed the NCAA Tournament for y'all and told you who to look out for and more importantly who not to pick. \nBoth my mom and my bubbie (grandma) used my column to pick their brackets, and both Ma and Bubbie are running away with their respective pools. The Lexington Club in Delray Beach has never seen a bracket quite like Bubbie's, and if she wins the pool, she'll be comped bingo cards for a full year and have a shuffleboard court named in her honor. \nI warned you about some of the big name schools. Bubbie knew not to pick Stanford or Kentucky past the Sweet Sixteen. She knew Arizona, Florida and Cincinnati would fold. How?\nI told her. I told all of you. I even warned you about Gonzaga, "Not even Gonzaga is a lock, as a second round loss may be in the cards for the 'Zags.'" (Cakes' Takes 3/11)\nNow I did, however, steer my two favorite women wrong on a few teams. My sleeper team, Charlotte, never woke up and was dismissed, and my Sweet 16 specials, Southern Illinois and Michigan State, bowed out in the first round, the Salukis to 'Bama by one measly point. \nBut all these picks were made before Selection Sunday, so I'll conveniently use that as an excuse for my miscues, which by the way, are few and far between. \nI only missed three games in the entire first round (Michigan State, Southern Illinois and Charlotte). I still have 12 of the 16 teams remaining (only Michigan State, Mississippi State, Kentucky and Stanford are out) and have all eight of my Elite Eight teams and am still sitting pretty. \nI'm done patting myself on the back -- for now that is -- because not even the Superhuman Cakes could forsee the UAB upset of Kentucky or the strength of the Musketeers from Xavier. How was I gonna pick the only tourney team IU beat to go to the Sweet 16?\nBut while your brackets may have been converted to the equivalent of rough toilet paper, I offer you some solace in the fact that Sports Illustrated's top three college basketball "experts" have at least half of their Final Four gone the way of Ben Affleck's film career. The same is true for three out of the four CBS so-called experts, one of these guys even has all four of his gone. \nSo don't feel so bad, the guys who get paid a bundle to predict the tourney don't even know and that includes, like every year, Dick Vitale. \nNext time you should just trust your resident sports columnist who for the lofty wage of $8 steered at least two beautiful, but oblivious women, to the promised land two rounds deep in one of the most topsy-turvy tourneys in years.