MARCH MADNESS

Despite the vagaries of War, life goes on for college basketball players! That's right, the NCAA tournament is back!

One of the best stories with regard to the tournament so far is Arizona vs. Vermont. This is Vermont's first year in the tournament since 1900. The coach of Vermont makes $70,000 a year (lowest in the NCAA Division 1), while the coach of Arizona makes $970,000 ($635,000 base salary, plus a deal with Nike) In order to go to the NCAA's, Vermont held a $10 per plate spaghetti dinner, while Arizona held a $100 a plate gourmet luncheon (which had 485 people attend!) Vermont had a 24 hour delay in getting to the arena (a blizzard in Denver). they showed up at the arena 38 minutes before game time.


It would be an even better story if Vermont had won, but alas this isn't the movies--- Arizona crushed them by over 29 points. Still, good on Vermont for making it to the Dance at all.

I'm in a pool on the WELL(for no money, thank you very much, just for bragging and the all important pokeybucks (imaginary money!) With 16 of the 63 games played, I have been right on 14 of them so far! (And I'm in second place!)


See the standings for the Well Pool

See the NCAA official scoreboard (with recaps and stats)


Read the Arizona Republic article I got the Vermont vs. Arizona information from