Is "Baller" Trademarked Yet?

For years, there has been a perception that one team in the Women’s March Madness tournament will dominate.  For many years, there was some truth to this, as dynasties formed, with teams like Louisiana Tech, USC, Tennessee, Stanford, UConn, Baylor, and South Carolina all won multiple championships within a short window of their primes.  South Carolina appeared to be the newest, but fell to Iowa in the Final Four.  This opened the opportunity for LSU to win and continue a unique era in Women’s college basketball, resulting in the 5 th unique winner in 5 tournaments. While there are several talented teams that could go far in the tournament, I cannot stray from predicting an undefeated South Carolina team.   Dawn Staley is one of the best coaches in college basketball, the team is again amazing, and they appear to have addressed their concerns from last seasons.   I have them beating Iowa 81-75.   Still, it won’t be an easy team for either team to go all t...

Every year, there is so much analysis regarding who is going to win the championship, with so many “experts” and talking heads claiming there are a few teams who are going to win; that said, they’re almost never right.  Even in my case, I have 4 metrics which have provided a good indicator of success over the past several years, and I’m often more wrong than right.  This is the nature of the Men’s tournament normally, and I think it is going to be worse this year. This season, there are 3 teams that were the Men’s side of college basketball that were considered better than any other team, in UConn, Houston, and Purdue.   The catch is that there are serious concerns with each of them, especially the latter two.   I don’t believe there is a single team that is a clear favorite, but there is one team that fares the best in most of the metrics:   Arizona.   I am predicting them beating Creighton 75-68.   That said, I would not be surprised if I get none ...