How's Your Bracket?

Well...I think it's time to accept defeat for my March Madness Bracket.  After the 1st round I had 2 brackets that were doing great.  One was in the 99.8 percentile on ESPN.  I only missed 2 picks out of the first round.  Unfortunately one of those was Louisville, who I had going to the final 4, and another was Michigan State who I had going to the Sweet 16.  So two costly errors, but I was still looking pretty good.

Then the 2nd Round started.  That's where the disaster was.  Really there was only one problem with the 2nd round.  Unfortunately, that had a huge impact because my pick for National Champion was knocked out in the most ridiculous finish I have ever seen.  I am obviously talking about the Pitt/Butler game

So, Pitt won the regular season title for the best conference in the country.  Sure they had a couple of more losses than the other #1 seeds, but I have no doubt they deserved a #1 seed also.  ON top of that, they seemed to me to be a team built perfectly for the tournament.  Good point guard play, and good big men.  And they play physical.  So my question is, what happened to the refs swallowing their whistles at the end of the game?  You almost never see fouls like that called at the end of the game.  They're too impactful.  And while both teams kind of suffered from interesting (to say the least) foul calls at the end, the last one that sent the Butler player to the line in a tie game with no time on the clock was one of the dumbest calls I've ever seen.

I don't know...maybe I'm just bitter that Pitt underachieved in the tournament yet again, and that my National Champion pick is gone after the 2nd round.