GEGEN DIESEN IDIOTEN MUSS ICH VERLIEREN? Thus Aaron Nimzovitch's unusual resignation of a chess game, and thus some Wisconsin Sports Bar post-mortems on Davidson excusing Wisconsin from the basketball tournament. Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel columnist Michael Hunt provides the unsparing annotations.

But as [Wisconsin coach Bo] Ryan so rightly noted, the Badgers could've won with [Stephen] Curry going off like that. But they had no chance when Davidson's supporting cast, forwards Thomas Sander and Andrew Lovedale, made all of their shots. Or when the Wildcats reduced UW's rock-steady swing offense to rubble by keeping the ball out of the guards' hands and denying the big men their customary shots up top.

Where the Badgers almost never got hurt in transition throughout 31 victories, the Wildcats beat them down the floor. Where Wisconsin denied shooters the ball and open looks beyond the arc, Davidson made half its 24 three-pointers. Where UW prided itself on being the better-prepared team, Davidson knocked the Badgers so far off their game that they bore scant resemblance to the outfit that had not lost since Feb. 9.

That left, as God intended and Bob Johnson used to provide, the men's hockey team as the last of the major winter sports teams playing, with an at-large bid and home ice (something that happened with some of the lower seeds in the women's basketball tournament as well). The combination was good enough for a win over Denver to make the round of eight, but North Dakota somehow overcame a two-goal disadvantage to prevail in overtime. North Dakota next face Boston College, who ousted overall top seed Miami of Ohio. Miami of Ohio???

Looks like Blogs for Industry got so excited about Texas A&M ousting the Duke women from the basketball tournament that he left a link tag open.