Don't look now, but With Leather staff correctly picked 7 out of 8 of the Sweet Sixteen match-ups. I could point out who made the single mistake because of my his unnatural dislike of a militant sect of the Holy Mother Church, but we're a team here at WL. Anyway, the point is I'm on a roll people, so listen up:

UCLA over Xavier – It is getting slightly loathsome listening to Bill Raftery wax poetic about Kevin Love's (incidentally – Kevin Love was my stage name) inbounding skills, but I would rather spend one more weekend watching the blonde bombshells of the Bruins' spirit squad than some dirty Jesuits.

Louisville over North Carolina – Um, I pretty much have to pick Pitino's squad because I've been proclaiming that the Big East is clearly the top conference this entire season. I mean even a team that finished low in this powerful conglomeration of schools – for example, let's say the cagers who wound up 13th – would have no trouble finding their way to the Sweet Sixteen.

Let me drink sleep on tomorrow's contests. Enjoy the games, and do a shot every time Clark Kellog says 'spurtability', refers to the basketball as an orange, or states that a team is being 'judicious' in their 3-point attempts. -KD

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If you told me there would only one Jesuit school left in the the NCAA Tourney, I would have wagered it would be Georgetown or Marquette. In fact, I did wager it would have been Georgetown, so that should give you a clue on how to apply your trusted Assistant Editor's predictions for tonight's games:

North Carolina over Washington State – The Cougars have too many foreigners for my liking. Plus I believe Tyler Hansbrough is in cahoots with my bookie.

Louisville over Tennessee - Who will be more sharply dressed, Rick Pitino or Bruce Pearl? Those fine gentlemen always look so nice. Why don't I ever see any of those suits when I'm shopping at Goodwill? 

West Virginia over Xavier – Will my disdain for Jesuit schools be enough for me to root for a Bob Huggins-coached team? Yes, yes it will.

UCLA over Western Kentucky – I'd really like to predict a Hilltoppers win, but the doctor says he can't fit any more pins into my femur. I'd also like to see one more weekend of the Bruins' cheer squad.  -KD

#1 North Carolina defeated #6 Duke in Durham last night 76-68 to even the season series and lock-up the top seed in the ACC tournament. Is this the best rivalry in sports or what? Um, I'll take the 'or what' and ponder the question while I look at some more pics of lovely Antonella. 

In Big East action, the Jesuits from D.C. beat Rick Pitino's depleted Louisville squad 55-52 to claim their second straight conference title. Meanwhile, Pitino's former team, the Providence Friars, lost to Villanova 73-63. This means if DePaul can somehow defeat Pittsburgh today, the mighty Blue Demons would secure the last seed in the Big East tournament. Undoubtedly, they will begin their historic run to San Antonio at Madison Square Garden as everybody knows they excel in tourney play. I felt a little like a traitor rooting for the Augustinians to best the Friars since the good Dominican sisters taught me everything (and I mean everything) I know. The Good Lord knows I would like every Catholic school go to the conference tourney except for those dastardly black robes from Milwaukee and Georgetown, but you can't fight a vast Vatican conspiracy. Sure, you think I'm crazy, but wait 'til the truth is revealed in the next thriller by Dan Brown.

Oh yeah, UCLA won an exciting game, and John Wooden is being treated for a rapid heart rate — probably because he read Monday Morning Punter's post on the Bruins. -KD         

Cornell defeated Harvard 86-53 yesterday to claim their first Ivy League Championship since 1988. I suppose this makes sense because given a choice of Crayola crayons, Big Red is certainly more useful than Crimson. Plus, the lads from Cambridge can't shoot:

Harvard, which shot 15-for-62 overall, didn't hit a field goal in the last 4½ minutes of the half and nearly the first six minutes of the second half.

Hey Harvard, do you like apples? Well, if you had 62 apples, but only could get 15 of them into your barrel, you'd only 24.2% of your original total. How do ya like those apples? It's funny because Matt Damon said it.

Meanwhile in the ACC, Mike Krzyzewski earned his 800th victory as Duke rallied from as many as 13 points down to beat NC State 87-86. Good for him, maybe he'll consider returning to his hometown to coach some different azure imps. North Carolina also rallied from a large deficit, 18 points, to best Boston College 90-80. Tyrese Rice went 14 for 25 and scored 46 points, the most by a BC cager since 1964, proving that some college ballers in the Boston area can actually shoot the rock.

In other exciting games, Marquette squandered an 11-point lead and lost the battle of Jesuit schools to Georgetown in OT. Undoubtedly the Lord rigged the game to test the endurance of the future foot soldiers of the Pope. The Lord's always rigging games, or at least that's the explanation I'll use when my bookie asks about my financial misjudgment concerning the upset in Lubbock. -KD         

As reported by WRAL, everyone with a blog, and the scores of tipsters sending me the link, three football players at the University of North Carolina were tied up, sexually assaulted, and robbed by two women and their male accomplice.  Please note that when I say "women," it's with the loosest possible meaning.  See if you can figure out what the hell happened in this frustratingly vague news story.

Assistant District Attorney Morgan Whitney said police arrived at the scene and found two of the victims, tied up, in boxer shorts. The third victim was fully clothed with his hands tied. At least two were sexually assaulted, Whitney said. He is still waiting on the final police report to see if the third man was also.  None of the victims required medical attention…

Prosecutors said the victims met the suspects – Monique Jenice Taylor, Tnikia Monta Washington and Michael Troy Lewis – during a birthday celebration at a downtown bar and that they all went back to the victims' apartment. Initially, one of the football players welcomed sexual advances from Taylor and Washington, Whitney said.

"They brought him back and put him in the bedroom," Whitney said. "When the victim left the bedoom, there was a naked black male in the hallway who had a knife." Whitney said Taylor then pulled off the victim's pants, pushed him down on a bed, attempted to tie his hands with his belt and started to fondle him against his consent. "The more that he wrestled, Mr. Lewis put his knife further, or closer, to the victim's neck," Whitney said. "Ms. Taylor fondled his private parts. He repeatedly said no, and as he continued to resist, Ms. Taylor and the codefendant, Ms. Washington, began to beat him in the face."

In my experience of getting sexually assaulted by lingerie models, I found it more of an inconvenience than a reason to press charges.  It's like, thanks for the scratches, now I'm late.  But there's a serious side to this.  Women sexually assaulting men is really funny until you take into account that the whales in question may as well be starters on the UNC offensive line.  And who knows what got fondled.  Penis?  Funny.  Butthole?  Suddenly very serious, my friends.