Written by Welcome to the least productive work day of the year on average in the United States. As most of you could guess, that’s because the NCAA tournament begins today.
If you’ve read this blog before you probably know I enjoy college basketball quite a bit and this year I get an extremely rare treat with my two favorite college basketball programs in the tourney in the same year, UCSB and Syracuse. They have slightly different expectations as Syracuse comes in as a #1 and Santa Barbara with a #15…..but it should be fun to get to see the Gauchos play an excellent Ohio State team on Friday night, led by Evan Turner who (with all due respect to John Wall) is the best player in the country.
As a reminder for why we all watch the tourney, just in case we get a moment like this:
Another story line of interest to me is going to be how well Cornell plays. For those that don’t follow the Ivy League at all, the league itself it has made some massive strides in the past 2-3 years with both Cornell and Harvard pulling in top 25 recruiting classes, which even 10 years would have been unheard of. Jay Bilas (the ESPN analyst) has Cornell moving on to the Elite 8 in his personal bracket and I can definitely see them winning a game or two, which I think would be a great sign for the new parity of college basketball.
Here’s hoping that you’re able to steal a few minutes away from the office at some point today, I know I will.
