Nature is beginning to bloom again, and the snow is finally (and hopefully) melting. Spring time is in the air and that means we are one step closer to summer.
Chris Deremer
March also brings the extravaganza that is college basketball.
Conference tournaments, invitational tournaments and then finally the NCAA Tournament. March Madness is upon us and it is the culmination of every basketball fan’s season. It is time for brackets galore, crazy upsets, but most of all the history that some get to finally witness.
Many say the Super Bowl is the holy grail of sports championships, but that only comes from the few who haven’t been able to become a part of the madness in March.
March is finally the time when college basketball fans from across the nation get to fill out their brackets and choose who they think will be in the Final Four, chasing that coveted perfect bracket.
For a college basketball fanatic, a perfect bracket is the dream. Bracket season means it is finally the time to prove your basketball knowledge to your friends and predict the final four teams of the tournament correctly.
This is the time of year where crazy sports fans are glued to their
televisions to watch bracket breakdowns from every sport analyst and get the insider scoop on which upsets to pick.
Every year, it is time to finally pick that 16 seed because eventually they will win, and like this year it finally came true.
This year’s tournament has shown why March Madness is so special with possibly the most chaotic first weekend of play in the history of the tournament, with two No. 1 seeds losing within the first week of the madness.
A 16 seed finally did the unthinkable and won a tournament game, and within the same region the two, three and four seed all lost in the first weekend.
March madness is full of buzzer beating heartbreaks, and astounding upsets which is why it makes the NCAA Tournament the most exciting action in all of sports.
When the Final Four finally hits, that means all the anticipation and all the arguments about who is the best is finally put to rest.
Then it is time for the championship game, to bring together the craziness of the month of March. This is finally the moment to see the dominant team throughout the season show why they were the best, or maybe the loveable underdog has what it takes to win it all.
What really brings the whole month together is the song montage played at the end of the championship game. It may sound weird I know, but when you hear “One Shining Moment” begin to play you know that the greatest month of the year has finally come to an end.
March Madness is better than the Super Bowl, NBA Finals and even the World Series. It is time to get bracket crazy, upset crazy and to enjoy the basketball frenzy for an entire month.
March Madness is the best time for crazy sports fans and the only bad part is that it doesn’t last longer.
March is truly the one shining month of the year.
Chris Deremer can be reached at [email protected] or on twitter @Cderemer_VN