Posted on Tue Mar 27, 2007 at 02:24:46 AM EST in NBA
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The Utah Jazz know a thing or two about pro hoops, after all they are one of the top teams in a vicious Western Conference. But it looks like the guys could really use a refresher course in College Basketball 101.

Like most coworkers, the Jazz got together and set up a March Madness pool for bragging rights and probably a nice chunk of change. So, who has the cleanest bracket on the team after all but four teams have been eliminated you ask. Why, Andrei Kirilenko of course.

I'm telling you," Kirilenko said, "I filled out my brackets in, like, 30 seconds.

If a Russian dominating the team's tourney pool isn't strange enough for you, then what do you think about Jazz sophomore C.J. Miles claiming that he doesn't even care about bracketology. Now, that's just sad. But guard Derek Fisher can't get over the fact that Ivan Drago is winning the team's pool.

That's proof that there's no science to the whole thing. I'm like tied for eighth or ninth or something like that. I'm so far removed from college basketball. Other than the big schools, I don't even know half these schools.

And then you always have the problem with that guy in the office that fills out multiple brackets and then brags about getting one right.

This is my first time to participate with the Jazz and, personally, I think you should only be able to submit one bracket," Fisher said. "But people around here, you can submit, like, four, five or six brackets. That doesn't make any sense to me. So of course you can end up in first place because at some point, one of your brackets is going to be good. But if you just have to pick one bracket, which I did because I'm a man of (integrity), you're tied for ninth.

Sounds to us like somebody is a lil' bitter.

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[NewsOK.com]: Kirilenko knows his stuff

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