Imagine having the wherewithal to have actually picked UConn defeating Kentucky last night in your March Madness Bracket Challenge, or being so hammered that you didn’t care that you were picking a #7 seed to beat a #8 seed, something that had never happened in the history of the tournament.
Now imagine having entered a bracket with those same two teams in the final game into the Quicken Loans/Yahoo! Sports Bracket Challenge where the top 20 brackets went home with $100,000 each only to find out from your friends that you didn’t actually choose UConn to win the championship. In fact, you didn’t pick anybody.
Now you know what it’s like being Corey Johnson this morning.
According to Deadspin, Johnson’s bracket correctly picked 11 of the Sweet Sixteen teams, seven of the Elite Eight teams, and three of the Final Four teams, as well as UConn meeting Kentucky in the final game.
But when he showed his bracket to his friends, they all had the same question:
Who do you have winning?
Johnson told them “UConn,” to which they replied, “That’s not what it says here.” At that point, all Johnson could mutter was, “Oh shit.”
Yahoo! Sports had apparently locked Johnson’s bracket before he entered UConn into the National Champion circle because the game between Dayton and Ohio State had already started, nullifying his selection of UConn.
It sounds like Johnson remains pretty positive despite the fact he narrowly missed out on a large chunk of change, and that says a lot. God knows my wife would still be knocking on my bathroom door asking me to come out and remove my head from my own ass.
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