March Madness

March is historically my favorite month of the year. In Iowa, it starts getting nice out, it is a true catalyst for summertime, and it means the my two arch nemesis months, January and February, are the furthest away, but mostly I love it because I love march madness.

I love March madness...I love basketball, I love competition and I love the emotion that college basketball brings. I love filling out the brackets. Every year I am sure that I picked all the right upsets and I convince myself that I am right. This year is no different I am sure that I picked all the right teams and that I will win $10,000 and a trip to Meet Dick Vitale in Indianapolis for the final 4. That is just how I think. And by the way I did pick Murray State to upset Vanderbilt!

I love March madness because its unifying. It's a great conversation starter. There isn't anyone who doesn't know that March madness exist. I love it because its exciting and unpredictable. The research is vigor and the analyst are strategic and gifted individuals who get paid to study basketball and assign each team a seed. It is a brilliant tournament and upsets act as evidence to justifying and support playing out each game.

I love the tournament because I can relate so well to it. I feel like all of my life experiences can be assigned to one spot on the bracket. I have been the overrated person in life and let people down. I have been the underdog and have surprised the world. I have been the champion and the loser, the one and done, the forgettable and the unforgettable. I have been the buzzer beater and beaten at the buzzer. I love march madness, I love the phenomena of life, and I love how to two relate.

Kentucky to win the championship. 83-91. It will happen.