Some Pre-First Round NCAA Tourney Things to Chew On

Happy St. Patty's Day Blogowers. I hope everyone remembered to dawn their kelly green and was able to get down a few Guinesses (or green kool-aid for the high school fellas) during lunch. Back to work though! Gotta save those hours away from the office for the next two days!

Just a few things while I am thinking about it:

1) Wanted to give my bother Matthew Berning aka Burnside a late birthday shoutout. He turned 17 on Monday March 15 (Beware the IDES!) and now does not have to worry about sneaking into rated R movies at the Western Hills Danbarry. By the way if you do ever go there, make sure to bring a plastic garbage bag to cover your seat with or you will leave testing positive for crabs, HIV, and gonorrhea. As we westsiders like to call it, "inexpensive fun" or "the gift that keeps on giving the whooooole year Clarke"...and no I don't mean a yearlong subscription to the Jelly-of-the-Month club.

2) Wanted to say best of luck to Coach Martin and the San Javier equipo de basquet this evening at the 'Tas. I haven't seen Lasalle play this season; I'm assuming they're pretty good and have a roster full of kids that were recruited illegally. Hey, throw the records and past history this season out, it's the tourney and anything can happen. Let's use our advantage in intellect to beat the inferior-in-the-classroom Lancers. Final Fours at Value Center Arena are always a good time.

3) We are officially less than 24 hours from the Madness. I assume everyone who reads this blog is just a big of a fan of the tourney as I am and using the word "giddy" to describe the way I feel about it isn't weird to say at least in front of this target audience. Either way, brace yourself because ready or not, here it comes!

4) As a precursor to the NCAA tourney, tune in to the Bearcats and the Flyers tonight in the NIT. I would love to see both of Xavier's bitches square off in the second round of the NCAA-Reject Tourney.

5) I leave you with a couple clips:
a) The first is all about the legend that is Bill "Onions" Raftery.
b) The second is the article from the NY Times discussing
the great things that Sister Rose does and has been doing for a long time over on the campus on Victory Parkway.
c)The third and final article breaks down every type of person that fills out an NCAA tourney bracket. Some humor in it....

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/the_bonus/03/10/raftery/index.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/sports/ncaabasketball/16nun.html?pagewanted=1&hp

http://www.sportspickle.com/article:733/the-7-people-in-every-ncaa-tournament-pool