On Friday, I mentioned that I was changing my pick to BYU since UCLA star player Johnny Juzang went down with a pretty scary right ankle sprain – and it looked like there was a good chance that the Bruins leading scorer would not play.

I thought to myself that typically a First Four team wins – and UCLA was clearly the best of the 4 winners. I had originally assumed Michigan State would win that game and had picked them to beat BYU. After the upset, I thought to myself that UCLA played well enough that they could also beat BYU. And then the news came Friday morning that it was still unclear that Juzang would play.

Sometimes having all this information isn’t a good thing. I made the rational decision that without their top scorer, they would be a shell of their team. Of course, we have seen what has happened in the first half.

Johnny Juzang has played – and has scored 19 of the Bruins 38 points on way to a 38-27 halftime lead. I am sorry to all BYU fans out there. The Lunatic did not think about how his abilities could hurt a team’s chances.