Drainage!!!!!!

Play "The Sting" theme music here...

Da-da-da-dada-dada-dada...

This from USA Today: Most seasoned college hoops refs conspicuously absent from tournament.

Among the officials affected was Jim Burr, who has worked 16 Final Fours, including 14 of the previous 18, and seven finals. Burr attributed his exclusion to "an administrative mix-up" over whether he completed one of the three requirements.

Bernard Clinton, who works in the Atlantic Coast Conference, also was affected, says John Clougherty, the ACC's coordinator of men's basketball officials. Clougherty adds he appealed to the NCAA, "but it didn't go anywhere." (emphasis mine)

Enter Paul Newman chomping on a cigar...



Without specifying why, Greg Shaheen, the NCAA senior vice president who oversees the event, says "a handful" of tournament-worthy refs were excluded.

Ummmmm, sure.... The refs also claimed that they sent in documents and now the NCAA have basically said "No you haven't."

I'll leave the conclusions up to you all.

Oh, and you can file this under "No shit": University of Florida students love to get drunk after games.

The weird thing about this story is the police basically tell you where they will set up checkpoints. Kinda defeats the purpose IMO.