I haven’t been paying much attention to LSU basketball this season, though my stepfather has repeatedly told me that I should.  And I didn’t watch much of yesterday’s first round games in the annual celebration of Madness (except, of course, the bit that I caught while I was having my nails done.  Yes, I was the only customer, and the guy who did my manicure was a guy, and the only other employee in there was also male, and there was basketball on the television set.  The whole thing was a little odd).  But I did have a wincing moment of precognition when I first saw the bracket, given that the Atlanta regional bracket looked like this:

What did I foresee?  LSU getting slaughtered by Duke in prime time.  And now, given that the bracket has begun to look more like this –

– well, it’s beginning to look pretty much inevitable.  I guess there are worse ways to go out.

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