BracketRacket: ‘There’s a pattern. I memorized it’ (The Associated Press)

Welcome back to BracketRacket, the one-stop shopping place for all your NCAA tournament needs. Today, we throw down, challenge follicles, solve a Rubik’s Cube and kiss the rim, all without breaking a sweat, even after batting the ball around with tennis star and Harvard dropout James Blake . We also refer you to a chilling list of celebrity alumni evil twins. But before any of it, we defy long odds. — WHY ARE WE HERE? Wow. That didn’t take long. By now, you’re probably wishing you’d dropped that $5, or $10, or whatever, on lottery tickets instead of throwing it into the office pool. Because when someone wins the lottery, they just call themselves lucky. Whoever wins your pool is going to call themself a genius. And you will be hearing about it for the rest of your life. As the higher-ranked seeds began tumbling down Friday like … well, like real seeds, we were debating bracket-theology ((at) copyright)…

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