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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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