Lost in the Shuffle

As teased in Kev's season wrap-up post - and, at a cursory glance Kev, it sounds like there's nothing wrong with your team that more scoring, better defense, and being taller couldn't cure - there's an acute conflict of interest this Thursday night - do we tune in at 9 PM sharp for the last installment of LOST before the show goes on a six-week break? Or do we honor allegiance to ye olde alma mater and tune into the Worldwide Leader in Sports for what is sure to be an epic showdown between the #14 Irish basketball team and the winner of Marquette/Seton Hall? (In the interest of full disclosure, know that there is no wrong choice here, especially for the Walt Disney Company, since they own both ABC & ESPN.)

Rather than try to answer that question for you, I figured there had to be some way to fuse the two worlds together, and luckily the Washington Post was thinking along the same lines. Click here to experience LOST MADNESS, with a bracket that makes the NCAA Selection Committee look like an all-mensa squad. Locke vs. Walt in the first round? Sawyer v. Hurley? Mr. Eko v. Dr Arzt? The point of a tournament field is to save these juicy matchups for the Elite 8, not have all the kick-ass characters cancel each other out in the early rounds while Bay-Bay Aaron and Jack's b&*%h of an ex-wife to advance into the later rounds.

Personally, I am all too happy to avoid this conflict since the basketball game airs at 6pm west coast time, but for those who cannot avoid it, I would advise staying true to Lost, since this is the last new episode until April 24th. The real tournament doesn't begin until next Thursday for the Irish anyway.