How?s your NCAA Tournament bracket looking? Bimbo?s looks beautiful.
The Examiner?s pigskin-turned-basketball-picking princess was a Stanford victory over Texas away from correctly picking the winner of every game for the past two rounds. She?s 11-1 since the start of the Sweet 16, even picking Stephen Curry and Co. to upset Wisconsin.
Who knew? Apparently, Bimbo.
She picked all top seeds ? Kansas, UCLA, North Carolina and Memphis ? to reach the Final Four. Maybe the 37-year-old capuchin with a fondness for warm, cuddly blankets and worms knows what she?s talking about as she watches the games on television next to her best friend, Oogie, at Frisky?s Wildlife & Primate Sanctuary in Woodstock.
But are the masses listening? It?s hard to say.
“When people bring in wildlife that needs to be rescued, they ask to see Bimbo,” Colleen Layton-Robbins, Bimbo?s owner, said. “We had a guy who came in and brought in squirrels whose home was knocked over by the wind, and he said, ?I want to see that monkey that has been costing me with the bookie.?”
Please remember sports fans: Bimbo?s picks are for entertainment purposes, even though it?s tempting to take the advice of a prognosticator riding an 11-1 streak.
Bimbo expects big things in store for North Carolina, which will defeat UCLA in the championship game on Monday night ? and she?s not the only monkey who feels this way.
Oogie, who was too hyper to make picks last week, was on her best behavior, and she also predicts a North Carolina victory over the Bruins.
The monkeys have spoken.
