As noted by ESPN (and not surprisingly) overwhelming majority of the country right now (74%) is picking the Gophers to "upset" Howland's UCLA program. More early notes/impressions:

• Bruins (like Shabazz) are not happy that we are getting shafted and shipped out to Texas. Many of us are not all that sympathetic to that whining given how this team laid eggs in number of games resulting in embarrassing and disgraceful losses both at home and on the road.
• Ben has promised Tony Parkers "10 minutes of practice" time. LOLOLOL.
• Speaking of clownshow - Morgan center got PWNed by Minnesota's athletic department in getting information out about our brackets. They did finally get these notes up.

So our game is on Friday. Tip is TBD. We will obviously have lot more here. In the meantime, if you have extended reflections, please blog them in the Fanpost section or any other key video/tweet, article that we need to take note of in the fanshots sections. Otherwise, continue to bracket discussion in this thread.

GO BRUINS.