Yes, we have our fair share of Cheesehead readers, and Wisconsin probably will win … but how can you not root for a school that buses 250 students from Carolina to Detroit for a college basketball game, and foots the majority of the bill? There are many neat stats about Davidson’s improbable run to the Sweet 16, and regardless of what happens tonight, Stephen Curry will be on every preseason All-American team that exists in October. (Anyone notice how the school is pimping Curry on the front page of its website? Is that a new thing?)

Earlier in the week we made our picks for tonight’s games (Midwest and South), but as evidenced by Thursday’s results, this is hardly an exact science. Last try to look like a genius. Saturday’s “projections” after the jump.

(Oh, Saturday’s games. UCLA is a six-point favorite against Xavier, but the Bruins haven’t covered in their last two games. As admirable as the Xavier’s bigs have played against Georgia, Purdue and WVU, they haven’t faced a machine like Kevin Love. The guy is an animal, and his supporting cast seems to do just enough to win. We’ll take the Bruins to win, but if we were getting in on the action, we’d pick Xavier to cover. But we’d most likely pass on this game, unless Friday night is good to us.

North Carolina’s a 5.5 point favorite against a Louisville team everyone is in love with. Why, exactly? What is it about Louisville that has everyone so worked up? Was it the dismantling of a crummy, middle-of-the-pack-in-the-Big 12 Oklahoma team? Or the beatdown of an obviously-overrated Tennessee team from the pretty-weak SEC? Louisville plays all over the place, and truthfully, we hope UNC rolls them. We never trusted Roy Williams in a big spot dating back to his Kansas days, and the tandem of Caracter and Padgett on Hansbrough could prove effective. Tough to bet against the Heels -we’ve lost the last two times we tried - so we’ll take UNC here. And we fondly remember last year taking UNC against Georgetown in the Elite 8 … only to find ourselves rooting for the Hoyas down the stretch. You always remember the losses.)

And absolutely unrelated:

“I wouldn’t wish this experience upon anyone.” This woman is being forced to take off a nipple ring at the airport.
Man busted having sex with a picnic table. Freakin’ Ohio.