Don't Forget To Fill Out Your CBI Bracket

If the NCAA Tournament is the Godfather and Godfather II of basketball tournaments, then the NIT would no doubt be the Godfather III of tournaments. Basically, the NIT would be the inferior counter part of a far superior product. Sadly though, there is a tournament even more neglected than the NIT, the CBI. Think of it as the Mafia! of college basketball tournaments. Yeah, I made a Mafia! reference, yeah, THAT movie, the one with Jay Mohr. How that guy has a job and a bangin’ wife, I do not know.

Mmmmmm………..where was I?

While Cal is parading around as this year’s Bay Area darlings in the Big Dance, Stanford will be representing the bay in this year’s CBI. Let’s take a look at their bracket:

As you can see, the CBI only has 16 teams, and I’m pretty sure the selection criteria was just anyone who was a willing participant. The CBI selection committee probably had to fight tooth and nail just to get 16 aboard the tourney ship. Stanford faces a first round match against Boise State this evening, a team only known for their football team and for having a blue football field.

Thus, to once again show that we at The Play in CA are completely not biased in our coverage of teams other than Cal, we encourage you to support the Cardinal. You can watch them play on CBS. Oh wait, ESPN. Uh, ESPN 2. ESPN Ocho? Oh, HDNet, which is a website, not a TV station. I think. Um, cool.

Go Cards… I guess.