Why we love March Madness
It’s the third week of March. To some, this calls for celebrating the arrival of spring by heading outside and enjoying the warm weather. But if you’re on this site you know that the only thing that will be getting a workout is your couch. The NCAA Tournament is here, and to celebrate, here are 64 reasons why we love it so much.
(1) Alliterations (March Madness, Selection Sunday, Sweet Sixteen, Elite Eight, Final Four)
(2) Buzzer beaters
(3) Tennessee coach Bruce Pearl sweating more than his players
(4) UCLA cheerleaders
(5) Cheerleaders in general
(6) But especially the UCLA cheerleaders
(7) The 5-12 game
(8) This year’s Final Four will be louder than all Detroit Lions games. Combined.
(9) Cinderella isn’t just for little girls
(10) We still have hope for the eventual 16 seed that will pull off the upset
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(11) Jumping from one exciting finish to another during timeouts
(12) Coke Zero commercials. They’re hilarious, plus I love the stuff…
(13) George Mason
(14) Luc Richard Mbah a Moute. The name of the day. Every day.
(15) Gus Johnson
(16) Shots of the coaches wives. So irrelevant that they’re kinda funny
(17) We all know this is the real meaning of “sweet sixteen”
(18) You can watch the games online
(19) “Tournament” requires a capital T
(20) Sometimes the first round falls on St. Patrick’s Day
(21) Stephen Curry
(22) Sweating over who will win the 8-9 game. It really doesn’t matter
(23) Gus Johnson
(24) If you’re Kevin Pittsnogle, your name can become a verb
(25) Princeton beating UCLA. Attack of the nerds!
(26) Teams sometimes face each other for the fourth time in a season
(27) Gus Johnson
(28) Calling in sick
(29) The CBS NCAA theme. Second to the new Hockey Night in Canada track in my books
(30) Small school coaches that finally get their first Tournament win
(31) Dick Enberg and Jay Bilas. The best broadcast team in the land.
(32) Seeing former star college players ride the pine in the pros, and know that you’re enjoying the Tournament while they chose not to
(33) Adam Morrison crying
(34) Students holding up signs that read “Dear mom, send more money!”
(35) Admit it: This is how you learned to “Alt-Tab”
(36) Bo Kimble shooting free throws left handed
(37) The fact that Anthony in accounting, who couldn’t tell a basketball from a baseball, still has a chance to, and often does, win the office pool
(38) Changing your Final Four picks more often than you change a two-year old
(39) Gus Johnson
(40) We don’t need Barack Obama to lobby for a playoff
(41) Words like “bracketology” and “bracketologist”
(42) Pressure free throws
(43) Mid-majors receiving an at-large bid over some money-hungry BCS school
(44) Four Florida starters returning (and repeating) for the love of the game
(45) 98 year-old John Wooden still travels to games
(46) Little kisses off the glass
(47) Mega March Madness: the best invention since, well, the Tournament itself!
(48) Maybe we’ll get a break from the Alex Rodriguez talk. Maybe.
(49) Selection Sunday, and the shots of bubble teams watching anxiously
(50) “Doing your readings” means reading the on-screen graphics
(51) They actually call travelling
(52) Going from agony to ecstasy in split seconds.
(53) CBS’ Billy Packer complaining about the number of at-large bids given to mid-majors, then having to broadcast George Mason in the Final Four
(54) Billy Packer not doing games this year
(55) Over $2 billion is wagered throughout the Tournament. I’m not condoning it, but the number is pretty staggering…
(56) Rick Pitino’s hair not moving an inch all Tournament long
(57) You use more paper printing your revised brackets than you do for all your projects
(58) Walk-ons
(59) Pre-game locker room speeches
(60) The bands
(61) The team hoodie that you haven’t washed in years
(62) Picking a game based on a team’s colours…and being right!
(62) Going from agony to ecstasy in split seconds
(63) One Shining Moment. So cheesy that it works
(64) Did I mention Gus Johnson…?
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