NCAA Tournament- No Upsets

This year's NCAA tournament has been remarkable for close games...in which the higher seed has almost always prevailed.  Today, the elite 8 starts, with three 1 seed vs 2 seed draws, and one 1 seed vs 3 seed game.  Bracket winners in office pools will be the ones who picked no upsets....aka the ones who had no fun with it!

So with the dearth of upsets, is this bound to be the year where we finally see all four No. 1 seeds in the Final Four? Unlikely. In the relatively predictable 2004 tourney, only one top seed (Duke) succeeded in making it to the Final Four, and the title game was between No. 2 seed Connecticut and No. 3 Georgia Tech. Conversely, in the upset-laden 1999 and 2001 tournaments, a No. 1 seed won the national championship (UConn in '99, Duke in '01).

Frank Deford at NPR says the brackets this year will filled with undeserving teams...teams with lacklaster big conference wins such as Arizona, Duke and other big names schools get in for being in huge conferences, while small schools like drexel, even with superior records, are left out.  He wants to see the little schools take a shot at the goliaths, since the biggers schools already did in conference and lost

I disagree...but his point is worth reading

Georgetown, Florida and North Carolina -- all higher seeds -- dig into early holes in their Sweet 16 matchups but pull through in the end. Clark Judge says Hoyas hero Jeff Green even admits his game-winning shot was luck.