Keaton McAuliffe
Sports Editor
Well it’s finally March. March is a notoriously busy month, perhaps one of the biggest of the year. It’s smack between two school breaks, has a solid two weeks of testing for the unfortunate souls that are sophomores and, now, juniors (*cue senior snickering), and it means the start of the marathon that is prom. But we’re forgetting another very important part of the month of March that is starting r n: March Madness.
If you’re a male in your high school years, this is great news. Y-Ball is just ending, so what better way to wave goodbye to amateur basketball than to graduate to the “big” leagues and fill out the infamous bracket. In fact, Selection Sunday was just two days ago. Which, if you’re a bro (in the general non gender-specific definition of the word aka female fans can socially fall under this category for just the month of March), probably means that you spent most of Sunday watching ESPN in your bro-tank and filling out pages of paper while chatting up the former Fantasy Football GroupMe that has now been properly converted to the crew devoted to Draft Day/ casino. Your mid-calves are tingling with excitement because, forget trying to figure out a clever way of asking that girl to prom that doesn’t involve basketball, all that’s expected of you is that you whoop everyone’s butts by filling out this sheet of paper.
Yup. Super exciting. #turnup.
If you detected sarcasm in that last line, congrats, you have a sense of humor. The reason for that sass being that, I’m a girl. More specifically, though I’m the sports editor here in this joint that is the NCHS Courant, I am not a basketball fan. I know, I know: help me, I’m poor. For some reason, I’ve never gotten overly attached to the whole March Madness phenom. I’m more of the September to February kind of fan. But, nevertheless, indifferents like me have to try to unmangle the mess that is college B-Ball and The Bracket for the next month, which can be pretty interesting considering everyone from that V-squad captain to Ms. Timmis seems to be carrying around that bracket.
But, whether or not you’re a superfan or you just fill out the bracket by picking your favorite colors (or most attractive players *wink wink) or you think you’re smart and you advance the better ranked team, the madness that is March is in full swing. So embrace the insanity, maybe try for a shot at that billion $$$ for a perfect bracket, and be sure to keep in touch with the Courant because Andrew Penchuk will be keeping you up to date on the latest happenings in this months’ college basketball.
