It's that time of year again! Highly anticipated by many, the NCAA March Madness tournament has begun, and the brackets are locked. There's no turning back, you can only look forward, and hope you made the right choices. In the upcoming weeks, there will be stress, joy, and sadness, sometimes all within one game....and then it repeats again. If anything can bring random people together, it's March Madness, and, boy, does it ever. People all over the country are suddenly more concerned over college basketball than their jobs and education, and TVs in public places everywhere are broadcasting the games. Ask anyone around you and they can probably who won the last game earlier. As you clutch your bracket in your hands or stare at your electronic version in hopes of winning your group and the grand prize with a perfect bracket, take a deep breath, relax....and then panic again because the next game is on and this one's important!
1. This is the year that I win, I can feel it in my bones.
2. Strong start, this is good.
3. Yes! I'm two for two!
4. You picked who to win the championship? Ha, that's cute.
5. One upset isn't too bad, I still have many points ahead of me.
6. If Duke doesn't pull it together and play well, I'm going to lose it.
7. I wonder how my bracket's doing...
8. I wonder if my bracket is doing better than Kermit the Frog's...wow I should hope so.
9. Okay, this is not good, my bracket is going downhill.
10. I have faith that everyone else will do worse than I do.
11. And there goes one of my final four picks.
12. This is more stressful than a recreational activity—that I'm not even playing—should be.
13. My entire life revolves around basketball right now and I cannot live without it.
14. What's the score?
15. Ahhh, and another year I didn't win.
16. Oh well, there's always next year, right?
Good luck, my friends!
