Orange you sorry you didn't listen?

Actual text of an e-mail from my brother (A Syracuse University freshman) dated February 19:

Well, we just lost to BC and I just had to vent my frustration to someone about this team. We have this inability to beat any elite teams. This season we have beaten only 1 top-20 team and that team was Mississippi State who is now out of the top 25 and is only 6-5 in the SEC. You can mark my words right now, Syracuse will not make it to the Sweet 16 in the NCAA tournament because as soon as we go up against a good team, we will lose.

Of course, like a fucking jackass, I fell for their run through the Big East tournament, and picked the Orange to go to the Final Four. Now, I'm left praying for a ton of upsets in that bracket, or hanging all of my hopes on the shoulders of Georgia Tech and Connecticut to do exactly what I picked them to do.

There are at least two spectacular games going on right now (Kansas on the ropes, Michigan State in trouble) and I've having trouble getting back into the tournament. That Syracuse loss was just crushing.