Not that you would ever know it, but this man is mildly enthusiastic about his job.

We didn’t want to do it this soon but Deadspin forced our hand with their media approval poll for Gus Johnson, a rather excitable gentleman we teased here, who has become a cult-figure in the sports blogosphere for his over-the-top calls during March Madness. Click here for poll and as you will see, our support for Mr. Johnson is much more in line with the voting public than our endorsement of Billy P(ACC)ker, the electoral equivalent of George McGovern.

Here’s Johnson’s call of the final seconds of UCLA’s comeback win over Gonzaga from two years ago (nice aside by Gumbel, btw) and here’s his call of the Ohio St./Xavier thriller in the 2nd round last year. Ha-ha, indeed.

ESPN’s Joe Lunardi has his updated tournament bracket here. A few things of note: Texas moves up to a 1 seed in the West and Memphis’ loss didn’t hurt them at all as they remain the 1 seed in the South playing a 2-3 hour bus ride away in Little Rock. Gotta think this is where their tough non-conference schedule buys them some wiggle room.

And it doesn’t appear there would be anything that Duke could ever do, for better or worse, that would force them to play outside North Carolina in the first two rounds as despite their two-game losing streak last week, Lunardi still has them playing in Raleigh as the 2 seed in the South.