Oh, the Madness. No, not the bad kind of madness that may have serious consequences. Rather we are talking about March Madness where for years college basketball teams have gathered together at various locations in furtherance of anointing one of them the national champion.
Appropriately women use the same process as the men to determine a winner, but for them it merely becomes who will be the annual sacrifice for the ladies from the University of Connecticut because those ladies not only win every year but do it by about a 40 point margin.
No, this is about the college boys and the 68 teams that play for our entertainment. Right now 68 has been reduced to 16 teams and play will resume Thursday, 3/24 and, as usual, it sure has been fun watching them get to what is called the Sweet Sixteen.
It wasn’t always called March Madness, and there weren’t always 68 teams participating. However, over the years there were so many games that came down to the final play that even if one didn’t have interest in a particular team it was still so much fun to watch the games unfold.
One of the last games of the recently concluded first week of play sure proved that point. Northern Iowa led Texas A&M by 12 points with less than a minute to play but managed to forget how to throw the ball inbounds in the last 40 seconds of regulation and got outscored 14-2 on the way to a double overtime loss.
You can’t make this stuff up. Wisconsin vs Xavier another one. I tell you it is Madness. Whoops, gotta go, St. Joe’s and Oregon are finishing off the night in another wild one. Can’t wait for more of the same today!
