think anybody really cares except you. i m an izzo guy. i love the guy and respect what he does every year. you re going against frank? i m going against i have missouri, i was so tempted to say they could lose in the first round, but they ll lose in the second round, i think, and vandy, which is did you see that before? i out early because something s wrong with the big east this year. they re not as good as they were last year. i would buy that. and i had the same final four and i hedged on vandy. now i think syracuse will lose and not get to the elite eight against either vandy or wisconsin. i love to try to pick up sets, it s stupid, that s why i don t win these pools anymore. my highest seed new mexico state, what do you think? i like it. maybe a push maybe a little bit more may have an affinity it is. you know why? it s guard play and
today marks one year since syria s uprising began with a day of rage. it is clear the rage has not let up. we re keeping an eye, too, on afghanistan. defense secretary leon panetta just met with president hamid karzai as the u.s. soldier who is a kutsed of slaughtering 16 people is moved from the country. the washington monument is sinking. it s sunk a fraction of an inch since the quake hit last august. today the circus ends and the prison sentence begins. former governor rob blagojevich has left illinois and might not be back for quite some time. he s on his way right now to a federal prison in colorado to start his 14-year sentence. he was convicted last summer of corruption. zoraida zsambolin is with us. my pleasure. zoraida, his going away thing was kind of like he was a rock star rather than a corrupt politician. why is that? as i was watching it this morning, i thought the exact same thing. this guy still does what he does best, right? he has this rock star
seed in the east. and michigan state, which won the big 10 title yesterday, out west. you can check out the full brackets at madness.nbc.com. we have some teams to watch thursday and friday. vandy plays harvard. how is that for a match-up? fifth-seeded vanderbilt, 12th seed harvard. first ncaa appearance since 1946, vandy s third straight appearance in the big dance though they have been losing quite a bit in the first round lately. let s hope that changes. in the south, south dakota state jack rabbits play three seed baylor in the first round. south dakota state became a division one program only four years ago. in the midwest, three seed georgetown plays a dangerous 14 seed belmont. and vcu back in the dance. they went to the final four last year, getting the 12 seed this year. playing five seed wichita state.
basketball tournament, but before the madness begins, there were still a handful of conference titles to be won. kentucky is the number one team in the country but didn t play like it against vanderbilt. the commodores hung around all game and took the lead in the final minutes. vandy wins the s.e.c. title 71-64, snapping ku s 21-game win streak. despite the loss, kentucky still gets the top seed in the south bracket. florida state might be the hottest team on the country. they beat duke on saturday and won the acc title with a win over north carolina. like kentucky, even though they lost, the tar heels are the number one seed in the midwest. michigan state is a top seed in the west bracket after beating ohio state to win the big ten championship. the senior, draymond green, knocks down the three in the final minute to put them up five. they win 68-64. to the guys who get paid to play, lakers and celtics. this goes down to the wire. celtics up one, under a minute to play. kobe br
it s going to be hilarious. stay home. deep on cnn. stay with us. the countdown to the republican caucuses. the first contest over who will face president obama in november. we ll take you live to des moines. and a corporation bows to public pressure. verizon convenience fee, fuhgedaboudit. captions by vitac www.vitac.com we start with iowa and the republican presidential race. there are just three days now until the first votes are cast, which means plenty of action this weekend in places like goblin goat and bloomers. a taste of what potential voters are hearing. we are just a few days, you know, before, before an important election. some people say, why does iowa have so much clout? it s a small state, and it has such great meaning, because it s sending a message around the country. a week ago we in last place. so right now people are thinking my whole emphasis on brain science coming in directly from dealing see that ambush, dealing with the real probl