My wife has historically done very well in NCAA bracket pools, and told me yesterday that she really thinks the Baylor Bears will win their first round game over Purdue. Her reasoning? The Baylor team was really, really excited when their name appeared during CBS's NCAA Tournament Selection Show.

Baylor was the last team announced, so you can imagine its player and their fans were on pins and needles hearing Greg Gumbel call 64 teams before finally getting around to announcing the Bears as an 11th seed to play in D.C. And I will concede that their reaction was more heartwarming than the reaction of the Memphis players, who looked like they just got invited to jury duty.

If Baylor plays with as much energy and excitement appearing in this video,
Purdue may be in for a tough game.

-- Tim Lemke