Form-fitting

 I don't know what's going to happen to tonight in the remaining four Sweet Sixteen basketball games. But I do know Norm in accounting ain't happy right now.

Norm in accounting, see, is the guy who picked a lot of upsets in his office NCAA pool. His bracket's tuna surprise right now, and he's even gonna lose to Carl in group sales, who thinks his poop don't stink because he landed that big farm implement account and is still telling everyone aaallll about it months later.

Now he'll have this to strut around about, too.

That's because the first four Elite Eight teams are in the corral, and none of them is Florida Atlantic or even 10-seed Arkansas, the last not-really-Cinderella-but-they'll-do left in Da Tournament. The Razorbacks had a 16-point lead on 3-seed Texas Tech at one point last night the Red Raiders made it disappear in a stirring comeback and dispatched the Hogs 85-83 in overtime.

They'll play in 1-seed Florida, an 87-71 winner over Maryland, for the West Region title tomorrow.

Meanwhile, it'll be 1-seed Duke vs. 2-seed Alabama in the East Region final, after both teams cracked 100 points to knock out Arizona and BYU, respectively. The Blue Devils won by seven, 100-93; 'Bama made an astounding 25 threes to wash BYU by 25, 113-88.

So it'll be a 1 vs. a 3 in one Elite Eight matchup, and a 1 vs. a 2 in the other.

Borrring. And also, not a good sign for your Purdue Boilermakers, Ole Miss Rebels, Michigan Wolverines or Kentucky Wildcats tonight.

4-seed Purdue gets 1-seed Houston in the Midwest, another form-fitting matchup. 5-seed Michigan faces 1-seed Auburn in the South. The 6-seed Rebels take on Michigan State vs. 6-seed Ole Miss in the other South Region game, and the 3-seed Wildcats play 2-seed SEC nemesis Tennessee in the other Midwest Region game.

The good news for UK: Big Blue has already beaten the Volunteers twice this season. The bad news: Beating a really good team a third time is really, really hard to do, or so goes the cherished old Sportsball article of faith.

So if the faith holds, and the form chart, it'll be a 2-seed against 1-seed in the Midwest Region Elite Eight, and a 2-seed against a 1-seed in the South Region.

More borrrring.

(Although the games likely won't be)

More Carl-from-group-sales lording it over poor Norm, going on and on about how you could tell this was going to be one of those reeeally chalky years if you were an astute observer of the college game -- which Carl is, by the way, and has been for a long time.

(Although Carl probably won't get all that out, because Norm likely will have decked him by then)