65 THINGS TO LOVE ABOUT THE NCAA TOURNAMENT Print E-mail

No. 1: The Final Four is in San Antonio
No. 2: Office pools, and the secretaries who win them
No. 3: Upsets
No. 4: Rooting against Duke
No. 5: Heckling people who root for Duke
No. 6: Rivalry games
No. 7: Cheerleaders
No. 8: No in-game analysis from Dick Vitale
No. 9: The unintentional comedy that is Billy Packer
No. 10: Skipping work on Thursday
No. 11: Living creatures that double as college mascots
No. 12: Cinderellas
No. 13: The National Invitation Tournament (if you're into that)
No. 14: The Women's NCAA Tournament (yes, we watch)
No. 15: Mass junk-food/beer consumption
No. 16: Bill Simmons' running tournament diary
No. 17: Near upsets
No. 18: Something to watch while football is in hibernation mode
No. 19: Skipping work on Friday
No. 20: “One Shining Moment”
No. 21: The championship game makes Monday worthwhile
No. 22: One-and-done elimination format
No. 23: Superstar upperclassmen who haven't yet bolted for the NBA (all two of them)
No. 24: Workplaces that feature one or more TVs
No. 25: Not leaving the house on Saturday or Sunday
No. 26: The “play-in game”
No. 27: Gus Johnson
No. 28: Sports bars
No. 29: Bill Self's hairpiece
No. 30: Viewing parties
No. 31: Carrying a crumpled paper around for weeks
No. 32: Pre-emption of original CBS programming
No. 33: Wondering which mid-major coach will perform just well enough to ditch his team for a major program in the offseason
No. 34: D.J. Augustin
No. 35: The UTSA men are in the field (wait, never mind)
No. 36: Masters previews/%Tiger Woods highlight clips
No. 37: It's an alternative to MLB spring training
No. 38: Trying to spell Krzyzewski
No. 39: Rick Pitino's snazzy suits
No. 40: The UTSA women are in the field (seriously)
No. 41: Michael Beasley vs. O.J. Mayo
No. 42: Last-second shots that connect
No. 43: Last-second shots that don't
No. 44: Billy Donovan's receding hairline (unfortunately, missing in action this season)
No. 45: George Mason: another Final Four run?
No. 46: Prop bets (always in accordance with the word of the law)
No. 47: CBS in HD
No. 48: Texas vs. Texas A&M in the Final Four? (a pipe dream, but a dream nonetheless)
No. 49: Rooting for teams that you don't know the players because you need the opposing team to lose for bracket-survival purposes
No. 50: Tearing up your bracket when that team fails to come through (it's cathartic)
No. 51: Games available online (always great for the stuck-at-work crowd)
No. 52: School names like Austin Peay and Oral Roberts
No. 53: Sports coverage that doesn't include the letters ESPN
No. 54: CBS analyst Bill Raftery and his many catchphrases
No. 55: Aggies who are starting to get the hang of this whole “basketball school” thing
No. 56: Quirky college mascots (Southern Illinois Salukis, the Stanford Tree, Maryland's turtle and our personal favorite, the Wichita State Shockers)
No. 57: The annual replay of Christian Laettner's turnaround jumper against Kentucky
No. 58: Chest painters
No. 59: Clark Kellogg
No. 60: Drinking before noon (on a weekday!)
No. 61: No. 12 seeds
No. 62: Hoping that someday college football will adopt a similar postseason format
No. 63: The chance that maybe, just maybe, a No. 16 seed will eventually take down a No. 1 seed
No. 64: The term “bracketologist”
No. 65: Did we mention the Final Four is in San Antonio?

 
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