That's what a former colleague annually labels his baseball predictions in the paper, and it's as perfect a description as anyone has ever come up with for this tortuous tradition. And nowhere does it fit better than in the NCAA Tournament. With that in mind, I direct you to my tournament predictions from this morning's Sun. As if to focus particular attention to my ineptitude, Channel 13 is scheduled to air my national champ, Boston College, right out of the box this afternoon.

Except that on my TV right now, on Channel 13, I'm seeing Wichita State-Seton Hall, from Greensboro. Not to worry - it appears to be filling up the 20 minutes between the start of CBS's programming and the tipoff of BC-Pacific (or, as we called it in my days out West, UOP) from Salt Lake City. We'll see. For what it's worth, after ridiculing its selection to the tournament in Monday's paper, I have Seton Hall going to the Sweet 16, knocking off Tennessee, in the bracket I filled out that gets BC into the title game.

At the first TV timeout: Wichita State 12, Seton Hall 4. I refer you again to the title of this post.