Misty about March
It’s March.
What’s not to love?
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Ah, March Madness.
Ain’t life grand?
Sorry if I seem a bit sentimental about this time of year, but there is nothing in sports quite like March Madness. The bracket. The games. The upsets. The one shining moments.
March Madness begins in earnest this weekend with Selection Sunday. Then by the end of next week, the games will begin.
Is there anything better than the first two days of the tournament? Thursday and Friday. The games start before noon and don’t end until midnight. You can watch the start in your pajamas and the end in your pajamas. And I guess if you’re lucky enough, you can just leave your pajamas on all day, never leave the house and watch ball all day.
The great thing about March Madness is that it offers something for everyone. Die-hard sports fans love March Madness, but so do folks who don’t know the difference between Duke and Duquesne.
The tournament becomes the talk of the nation for three weeks. It’s the single greatest stretch on the sports calendar.
There are better single days, of course. The Super Bowl, namely. But at no other time do you have one sporting event hold our interest like March Madness.
And it really doesn’t matter how good the basketball is. There can be a ton of upsets. There can be none. Doesn’t really matter. Everyone loves March Madness from the announcement of the first bracket through all the live look-ins at random regional sites to that final game.
So, forgive me if I get a little sentimental about March Madness. It’s only the most wonderful time of the year.
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Comments
Tell your rant to Davidson or George Mason…
As for a D1 football playoff, it would be limited to 8, 12 or 16 teams at most. Each time would definitely have a shot at winning it all.
OMG, Davidson or George Mason, 2 teams in the past ten years. Math time! 65 x 10 = 650. 2/650 = about .003077. So about .3077% occurrence of this Cinderella run. Not a very significant number.
More math! 32 games in two days, 2 to 3 real upsets in that first round, so…we looking at about a 6 to 9% chance of people getting to laugh at fans of the traditional powerhouse teams.
Some final math! People talk about how exciting college basketball is…well think of it this way. there are 327 teams in D1 Ball, and 65 make the tourney, that is about a fifth. So we are only watching top fifth of the teams out there play 32 games in 2 days…there is bound to be some upsets, exciting games, etc. But there are also quite a few really crappy games.
March madness is overrated, and is more a testimonial to betting pools than it is good sport. What’s so great about a 65-team tournament where at least 40 of the teams have no change in you-know-where of winning the thing?
The NCAA basketball tournament is exactly why I DON’T want an NCAA Div 1-A football playoff.