Madness in March -- 79 degrees or snowing

Will it be Louisville, Indiana, Gonzaga, or Kansas? We all know that #1 seeds win it most of the time.

Ohio State? Nah, they’re losers, though I like their coach. I don't like Pittino, but I do like his boy, Billy Donovan. I like the old man (Jim Larranaga) of Miami better. Didn't he used to coach James Mason, or Dave Mason, or was it Harvey Mason? Anyway, he’s an old guy like me, and he’s got an old team. Seniors are good this time of year, if more rare as the years pass.

Originally the Gonzaganut Bar

How about Gonzaga? A kid told me a few days ago that the Zagnut candy bar was named for the basketball team. You believe that, don’t you? Remember when those boys from the far northwest were the new kids? Hell, I remember when Coach K was the new kid playing guard for Bobby Knight at West Point.

April Gladness

In the last 21 tournaments, a top 4 seed has won it all. Arizona was a #4 seed when they won it, but can they win it as a #6 seed?

Is Bucknell the new Butler, is Chaka still smart?

Give me Liberty (and 40 points), or some other team that didn’t lose 20 games and make the field of 68.

Sometimes when I pick the wrong team, I hate myself. My son just hates Bill Self.

Know lots of folks that went to Syracuse, and was very happy when they won it; more happy when (upstart) Vermont beat them a few later.

Does anyone else miss Roy Williams blubbering like a little kid after another early exit?

Harvard is in this one – go figure? Princeton was robbed in 1989. They had #1 Georgetown beat when the Tigers were a 16, but the refs took it away from them…seriously, they did.

Been watching this thing for 50 years, early on, every game was on tape delay. I was rooting for Bill Bradley, even though the damn games weren't even on TV, and I’d never seen him play, if you can imagine?



My son posts up the Big Red Head

I watched every minute of Bill Walton play the greatest game in final’s history, and lost a lot of money one year later when UCLA lost to NC State, and David Thompson.

Had North Carolina on a bet over Georgetown giving 2 points. Freddie Brown makes that horrible pass to James Worthy, and I needed Worthy to go in and slam it home for a 4 point lead, but he pulls it back, and dribbles it until he gets fouled. The National College Player of the Year needed to make one of two for me to win a bundle, and he misses both. The bet was a push, but it was a great game, and I have a better story.

It’s all before us, and we can root 63 times for a winner, and some of us, will win some money.

It’s snowing like crazy up here in northern Vermont, and tomorrow is the first day of spring. Last year it was 79 degrees, and that was crazy too.

Must be the time of year that brings on the madness?   Or maybe it's all the Gonzaganut Bars?