The Tournament

It's finally March!  We're back to my favorite time of the year: March Madness!  To be honest, I'm not even a big fan of basketball, but something about the thrill of the one-and-done nature of the tournament gets me going.  While I know I typically decry playoffs because of their random nature and the devauling of the regular season, the NCAA tournament gets it right.  All the top teams are so bunched together that this is probably the only way to choose a champion and, better yet, everyone agrees on it.  There's no convoluted BCS nonsense.  It's just two weeks of frantic hoops and dramatic moments.  It's kind of like the World Cup - I become super intrigued with a sport that I really have no consistent interest in, and yet I can't stop watching...and it comes every single year!  I'm currently trying to figure out a way that I can link the tournament games on Thursday and Friday with my lessons so I can show them in school.  During my high school days, those were literally my favorite days of the year.  The teachers would have the game on in the classroom and an extremely tiny amount of work would be done.  And this year, it's Michigan State against the Horizon League's finest in Valparaiso at 12:10 on Thursday from the home of the Pistons!  How can I possibly NOT show this game?  

Wahoo bracket time!