---
title: 'And They’re Out, in the Regional Semi-Final'
date: '2006-03-17T06:28:01-05:00'
permalink: /and-theyre-out-in-the-regional-semi-final/
tags:
    - television
---

I haven’t been paying much attention to LSU basketball this season, though my stepfather has repeatedly told me that I should. And I didn’t watch much of yesterday’s first round games in the annual celebration of Madness (except, of course, the bit that I caught while I was [having my nails done](/and-now-for-something-completely-different/). Yes, I was the only customer, and the guy who did my manicure was a guy, and the only other employee in there was also male, and there was basketball on the television set. The whole thing was a little odd). But I did have a wincing moment of precognition when I first saw the bracket, given that the Atlanta regional bracket looked like this:

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What did I foresee? LSU getting slaughtered by Duke in prime time. And now, given that the bracket has begun to look more like this —

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— well, it’s beginning to look pretty much inevitable. I guess there are worse ways to go out.