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I want Joe Lunardi's job.
Lunardi is the ESPN.com "Bracketology" guy who gets paid (quite handsomely, I'm sure) to do what sports fans love to do most: Look into the future.
Lunardi starts telling us in December, perhaps even before, which 65 teams will be in the NCAA Tournament. I'm guessing Joe the Plumber would have about the same amount of success.
This isn't to detract from Lunardi's expertise. I'm sure he has as much information as possible with which to make his forecasts. All of the RPIs, strengths of schedules, road wins — the really good stuff.
Yet every time I look at Lunardi's updated "Bracketology," I feel dirty. What does he really know that I couldn't have figured out?
It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out that Wichita State is on the NCAA Tournment bubble. Lunardi has the Shockers as one of the final eight teams not in the field. Well, I don't have them in, either.
And I'm pretty sure I know what it would take for Wichita State to make its best case for an at-large bid: Winning the rest of its regular-season games and then getting a couple of wins in the Missouri Valley Conference postseason tournament before losing in the championship game.
Doing so would give Wichita State a 28-6 record (27-6 for NCAA purposes thanks to a win over Arkansas-Monticello).
The problem for the Shockers is a so-so strength of schedule and a so-so conference. Just four years ago, the Valley sent four good teams into the NCAA Tournament. But for the past two years, the MVC has been a one-bid league and there's a good chance that's the case again this season.
Wichita State has five conference games, starting tonight at Evansville. It's conceivable the Shockers could win them all. They also have a Bracket Busters game at Utah State, which, according to Lunardi, is an NCAA Tournament team. Beating the Aggies in Logan would give the Shockers' profile a huge boost.
Wichita State, though, can't afford a single misstep. If the Shockers had lost to Indiana State on Saturday night instead of coming back from 15 points down in the final 8:56, they could have kissed a potential at-large bid bye-bye.
Lunardi gives WSU a 35 percent chance of reaching the NCAA Tournament. I think that's about right. There's no margin for error, but the Shockers have a favorable schedule.
* Both Super Bowl quarterbacks did a lot for their images during Sunday's game.
Indianapolis' Peyton Manning failed to win his second Super Bowl, so it's difficult for me to anoint him as the greatest quarterback to play in the NFL, which I probably would have done had the Colts won.
Manning's postseason record is 9-9, hardly great. His terrible interception late in Sunday's game that turned into a back-breaking Saints touchdown was a blow to Manning's legacy.
Yes, if I were told I could have one current NFL quarterback with whom to start a team, I would pick Manning. But it's not the no-brainer decision you would think.
I would give some thought to the New Orleans Saints' Drew Brees, the MVP of Super Bowl XLIV and the quarterback who picked off Kurt Warner, Brett Favre and Peyton Manning on his way to a championship.
Remember how Brees was viewed with some skepticism coming out of Purdue because he was deemed to be too short and not athletic enough to be able to lead an NFL franchise.
He was the second-round choice of the San Diego Chargers (LaDainian Tomlinson was the Chargers' first-round pick), and went to New Orleans in 2006 after being pushed aside for Philip Rivers.
In his four seasons with the Saints, Brees has passed for 18,298 regular-season yards, 122 touchdowns and had 57 passes intercepted.
In that same four-year span, Manning has passed for 16,939 yards, 122 touchdowns and thrown 51 interceptions.
Brees can make a valid argument as the NFL's best quarterback and it's not a fight I'm going to pick. I'm in his corner.
* What now?
Well, there's the Pro Bowl on Sunday in Honolulu... Oh, wait, they already played that game. I missed it.
There's the rest of the NBA's regular season... yeah, just get me to the playoffs.
There's the Winter Olympics . . . yeah, by this point I'm tired of anything having to do with winter.
There's the PGA season . . . without Tiger Woods. No, probably not going to devote myself to that.
There's baseball spring training... I love it, but I understand people who don't.
Really, the only thing we can get into now is the stretch run of college basketball.
* I'm still enthralled with the Showtime series "Dexter," which I'm catching up on. I'm nearly finished with Season 2, and season 3 awaits. It might be my favorite television show ever, although I'm not sure whether I can make that determination through just a season and a half of the show, though.
Next up on my entertainment calendar is seeing Jeff Bridges in "Crazy Heart." He's a highly underrated actor. Think of Bridges at his best and, of course, you think of "The Big Lebowski." I also loved him in "The Contender," and in "Jagged Edge," with Glenn Close.
* It's still really difficult to pick Wichita State's most valuable player for this season, but I'm sticking with junior forward Graham Hatch.
Clevin Hannah can make a really strong case while J.T. Durley and Toure Murry are right there. But Hatch is the team's glue, I think.
* Kansas State did exactly what it needed to do last week, which is to take care of mediocre teams on the road.
The Wildcats could have stubbed their toe against Nebraska and Iowa State, but came through with wins. Now KSU has the week off before playing at home against Nebraska on Saturday.
There are still three interesting road tests ahead for Kansas State: Texas Tech, Oklahoma and Kansas. If the Wildcats can win two of those, they're likely headed for no worst than a No. 3 seed in the NCAA Tournament. And they'll be one of those teams nobody wants to play in March — and perhaps even early April.
* More people watched the Super Bowl on Sunday than watched the final episode of "M*A*S*H" in 1983, which previously was the most watched television show in history.
I wonder if anyone has asked Mercury Morris what he thinks about this development?
I'm ashamed to say I'm not one of those who watched the final episode of "M*A*S*H." It was never one of my shows.
* Thanks for reading, as always.
