To be honest, I am not a big fan of college basketball. Frankly, I know few people who are. After all, most people’s interest seems limited to picking teams on a whim from brackets in their office pools.
But following how teams are faring in the tournament brackets has become as obligatory for political/social/cultural commentators as it is for sports analysts.
Indeed, it’s an indication of the sheer madness this tournament incites that President Obama makes an annual show of filling out his brackets, and this year (i.e., tomorrow) he’s dragging British PM David Cameron along to Dayton, Ohio to watch a first-round game.
Poor Cameron, even though he will be like a veritable fish out of water, he’ll have to sit there and pretend to be having male-bonding fun with Obama: imagine a typical New Yorker being dragged along to watch a cricket match while drinking warm beer over in the UK….
Anyway, here are my picks:
