Too many Easter baskets
By church service’s end, each of my children had received three baskets. Here I’ve arrayed some of our Jesuses and sheep:
Abel keeps on nearly swallowing these minifigs. Also, he steals his brothers’ chocolates and disolves them in his mouth – unwrapped.
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Will Michigan win tonight’s title game? The Wolverines currently lead UConn by nine points. The Big Ten has been shut out for roughly a quarter-century. Michigan State won in 2000; Maryland, not yet a conference member, won in 2002. Indiana, Illinois, Ohio State, Michigan State, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Purdue – every turn-of-the-century conference member, that is, except Iowa, Northwestern, Minnesota, and Penn State – lost in the title game after MSU won.
UConn first won in 1999 and went on to claim five more titles.
There are eighteen Big Ten members now. Out of regional loyalty I penciled in Nebraska and Purdue as finalists. It was a bold prediction but not a lousy one by the expected-utility criterion. Purdue unsurprisingly reached the Elite Eight; Nebraska advanced to the Sweet Sixteen having previously never won a tournament game. Had the Huskers gone far enough, I surely would have claimed Yahoo!’s $25,000 prize. (But it was the Huskies who reached the final.)
A couple of years ago, I picked Creighton to shock the world. What possesses me to choose Nebraskan teams, I don’t know; I guess I figure the state is due.
I did have Michigan in the semifinal. I’m in the 60th percentile this year, which is much better than usual. Yahoo! complimented my bracket as “fine.”
Abel keeps on nearly swallowing these minifigs. Also, he steals his brothers’ chocolates and disolves them in his mouth – unwrapped.
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
Will Michigan win tonight’s title game? The Wolverines currently lead UConn by nine points. The Big Ten has been shut out for roughly a quarter-century. Michigan State won in 2000; Maryland, not yet a conference member, won in 2002. Indiana, Illinois, Ohio State, Michigan State, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Purdue – every turn-of-the-century conference member, that is, except Iowa, Northwestern, Minnesota, and Penn State – lost in the title game after MSU won.
UConn first won in 1999 and went on to claim five more titles.
There are eighteen Big Ten members now. Out of regional loyalty I penciled in Nebraska and Purdue as finalists. It was a bold prediction but not a lousy one by the expected-utility criterion. Purdue unsurprisingly reached the Elite Eight; Nebraska advanced to the Sweet Sixteen having previously never won a tournament game. Had the Huskers gone far enough, I surely would have claimed Yahoo!’s $25,000 prize. (But it was the Huskies who reached the final.)
A couple of years ago, I picked Creighton to shock the world. What possesses me to choose Nebraskan teams, I don’t know; I guess I figure the state is due.
I did have Michigan in the semifinal. I’m in the 60th percentile this year, which is much better than usual. Yahoo! complimented my bracket as “fine.”
