Sports: Let the madness begin!

Irish Trojan Brendan Loy is on a roll posting about the NCAA brackets!

The inconsistency of some of the seeding seems to be the complaint I'm hearing on TV and radio.

I can see their point.

Then there are complaints about who got in and who didn't.

I dunno... when you get to picking the last 4 teams for at-large bids seeded around the 13-seed level, I am not going to express a lot of confidence that team A is that much more deserving than team B.

Is the sixth team in a power conference really more deserving than the second team in a mid-major?

Is the ninth team in a power conference really more deserving than some of the other bubble teams out there?

Anyway, as for UCLA, I am a fan and am hoping they can pull together a good run.

Some have gone as far as to say, National Championship!

Some other fans are saying, Final Four!

Realistically, they were probably a #3 seed and thus "expected" to get to the Sweet Sixteen but no further.

As I see it, the media buzz around the Pac10 tournament run might be a bit overdone.

Beating Oregon State - they were supposed to beat them up. They were also without Sasa Cuic their star play.

Beating Arizona - they were supposed to win. Hassan Adams was suspended for a DUI so Arizona was not up to full strength.

Beating California - they were supposed to win. How much of the relative ease of victory was that fact that the Bears played a 2OT game the night before.

Then there is that fact that the "non-conference wins and losses" factor doesn't look good for UCLA. The losses were to Memphis and West Virginia. The win over Nevada remains a nice one as they are an NCAA team. The win over Michigan looked good at the time but has lost its luster as Michigan has collapsed and are an NIT team this year.

Howland has done a terrific job but his success has now created the monster of unrealistic expectations among Bruin fans.

A Final Four appearance would be an extremely pleasant surprise and probably a year ahead of a realistic schedule for this team.

An Elite Eight finish would be a happy outcome for most fans.

A Sweet Sixteen appearance will be met with mixed feelings among fans. Some will say, yeah, that was about right and will look forward to next year. But others will start calling into radio shows and say the Howland can't win the big game!