You know what is awesome?

Winning a flat screen LCD television — that is awesome.

And that is exactly what students who have created their perfect brackets for the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament are competing for on Facebook.com.

Yes, that’s right — Facebook. That place where you can either stalk or get stalked by “friends,” has offered something different this year — a legal way to compete against individual groups, your school and schools across the country in your tournament picks.

It’s too late to compete in this year’s tournament, but for the 582,218 students across the country who did create their brackets, now is the time to watch and see how you do.

Even we here at Technician have our group on the site and, sadly, we aren’t doing very well. In fact, students at N.C. State are well below the leaders — a University of Tennessee student named John Cadotte who has a staggering 126 points. The highest at NCSU is only 95 points.

So this leads us to a more important question about NCSU students — what’s up with our picks? We are an ACC school people. We should be schooling the nation with our picks.

Basketball and barbecue — that’s what NCSU does! It’s too late except for praying for either underdogs Bradley University and George Mason University to win it all — if you picked them.

Next year, we need to get our heads into the game a little bit more. Start scouting the teams earlier. Focus on the nation as a whole for schools and not just the ACC — just because a team from our conference will win it all doesn’t mean that other teams aren’t going to upset sub-ACC standard teams.

We need to get our best picks on Facebook early and not worry so much about the illegal pools we may have with friends or at work. There is school pride at stake here people and we all want to come over to an NCSU dorm room and watch that nice LCD television.