March Madness

As most of you could tell from class, one of my favorite times of the year is March. There’s nothing particularly interesting about March except for one thing; March Madness! The only way I can describe how awesome it is would be that if the Goddess of basketball and Santa Claus had a child, it would be the NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament. I was so excited for the Divisional Tournaments to end so that the Bracket for the tournament to come out. My roommate on the other hand didn’t share my excitement. I printed off a few copies for myself to fill out immediately and I even did the good roommate thing and printed off a copy for him to fill out. As I spent the next two hours filling out brackets, my roommate’s just sat there on his desk, without even a pencil scratch on it.

            At first I was puzzled, but then I thought that maybe he didn’t have an adequate pencil, or maybe he wanted to get some divine help with his bracket by praying about it for a while, but this was not the case. When I asked him, if he had selected the Sweet Sixteen (the last sixteen teams left in the tournament) yet, and he responded with, “Ah, I’ll get around to it eventually.” What?!?! I wasn’t going to accept that my roommate wasn’t feeling the March Madness, so all I talked about for the next forty minutes was college basketball. I had to convert him, so that he could feel the excitement of the big dance. After much talk and debate about teams, I finally got him excited about the tournament. I got him to fill out his bracket and with a little luck, hopefully he will become a fanatic March Madness fan like I am in the future.