It's March Madness Baby!

It's that time of year when Dick Vitale goes crazy on ESPN. He seems to talk at a rate of 200 words a minute about the tournament. Fans are treated to a lot of quality basketball with varying styles and abilities. It seems like there are games on every night during March.

We have already seen some exciting games in the first two rounds of the men's tournament(Purdue and Washington, Florida State and Wisconsin, Texas and Duke, Oklahoma State and Tennessee, Michigan and Clemson) and some upsets (Cleveland State over Wake Forest and Arizona over Utah).

I will watch the tourney through the end because I am a fan. My schools may not be there this year, but I am still very interested. My final four for the men are North Carolina, Memphis, Pittsburgh, and Louisville. For the women I am picking Connecticut, Auburn, Baylor, and Duke.

I am personally into my second weekend of basketball overload. Last weekend I was watching the conference tourneys. I was watching both men's and women's. Both of my alma maters are in the women's tournament (which I am watching right now) and the men's team from my graduate school is already into the 3rd round of the NIT.

College basketball in March beats the NBA in my opinion. You see athletes playing for the love of the game, not a paycheck. Teams that play as a team usually succeed over good athletes playing individually.

Finally - I am not a Duke fan but I agree with Coach K's comments to the President: Focus on the economy. Sure, basketball is an outlet for the country in troubling times, but he should focus on the economy. Former President Bush, an avid baseball fan, focused on world turmoil after 9-11 and not the baseball playoffs and World Series.