The Lunatic doesn’t need any sleep. He still has to handicap Thursday’s games – but how can he concentrate when Rutgers and Notre Dame are going to overtime.

It is so funny. One of my colleagues is a Rutgers fan – and I told him that I really want Rutgers to sneak into the tournament, so that they can play in a tight game, and like the Rutgers guards have done to multiple top Big 10 teams, Ron Harper Jr or Geo Baker would get the ball with time running out and hit a shot at the buzzer to win the game.

And with 40 seconds in a tie game, Rutgers got the ball. Baker ran the shot clock down and passed it to Harper for three – but no, it misses. But wait, Paul Mulcahy pulls down the offensive rebound and kicks the ball back out to Baker. Rutgers now has the final shot. And this time, the ball isn’t leaving Baker’s hands, he drives, he gets to the key, he fades away from the Notre Dame defender (who played really good defense considering the situation), and the shot comes up short.

So we head to overtime – sorry to Gary that my vision didn’t come true in regulation. But the night is still young…..