The sleep deprivation is real. When I was younger, I would happily do my handicapping while the 7 pm games were going and then blog throughout the games.

Now, I am sitting here struggling with my database and watching my network continue to crash. It seems to work fine on my phone where I can blog. But I need a computer to manage the database – and that doesn’t want to connect.

Still have 16 games to handicap after I fix my network and finalize the database. Glad there are four late games to keep me company. And that there weren’t any surprises in the early evening games. Duke and Texas jumped out to big leads. Auburn and Iowa had an interesting game where Auburn jumped out to a large lead and then Iowa would storm back. In the end, Auburn just got too far ahead. And Northwestern knocked out the last of the Mountain West at large teams as only the regular season champ San Diego State survived the first round.

Here’s hoping I can get my network back up. I am too tired to find another way to get the site finalized.