What is March Madness?
Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 12:12 pm
I have found that the term "March Madness" means different things to different people.
To some it means simply the 65 team NCAA tournament. To others it means the NCAA, NIT, and I would assume now the CBI tournaments. To others still it includes all the conference championship tournaments as well all the national postseason ones.
What do you think "March Madness" means?
Does it take place only in March? Does the Madness part end when all of the "Cinderella" teams have been eliminated? I was just wondering what the term meant to all of you.
To me it starts with conference tourneys and goes all the way through until the last unranked or non-power conference team loses. I think what makes it enjoyable is the opportunity for improbable upsets and Cinderella stories. Once we get to a point where all the games left would not feature the possibilty for a highly improbable result it loses some of its luster for me. It doesn't matter if its a low seed like Illinois playing Wisconsin in the Big Ten tourney, a school like Davidson playing Kansas in the NCAA, or an Akron at Florida State matchup in the NIT (which resulted in a Zips victory this yaer by the way
). I just enjoy the opportunity for the unlikely to happen. To me that is the very definition of "Madness".
To some it means simply the 65 team NCAA tournament. To others it means the NCAA, NIT, and I would assume now the CBI tournaments. To others still it includes all the conference championship tournaments as well all the national postseason ones.
What do you think "March Madness" means?
Does it take place only in March? Does the Madness part end when all of the "Cinderella" teams have been eliminated? I was just wondering what the term meant to all of you.
To me it starts with conference tourneys and goes all the way through until the last unranked or non-power conference team loses. I think what makes it enjoyable is the opportunity for improbable upsets and Cinderella stories. Once we get to a point where all the games left would not feature the possibilty for a highly improbable result it loses some of its luster for me. It doesn't matter if its a low seed like Illinois playing Wisconsin in the Big Ten tourney, a school like Davidson playing Kansas in the NCAA, or an Akron at Florida State matchup in the NIT (which resulted in a Zips victory this yaer by the way
). I just enjoy the opportunity for the unlikely to happen. To me that is the very definition of "Madness".