Generally, when referring to March Madness you begin to think about the NCAA tournament, filling out brackets and Davids vs, Goliaths.<\/p>\n
This is a great time of year when it doesn’t matter which school is favorite, anything goes (see Duke vs Mercer) and the underdog is ready to make a name for themselves.<\/p>\n
I used to be real big on March Madness. I even told people that bracketology was my major. I still like March Madness, but not to the degree I used to.<\/p>\n
My freshman year I knew I had put together the perfect bracket, (well in this case brackets because I made 23 of them). I pulled the numbers, analyzed the data and by the end of it, I believed I had about a 90 percent chance of one being perfect.<\/p>\n
So being my smug self, I entered all of them into the ESPN challenge and waited for the media to announce that I, Patrick Bingham, had put together the perfect bracket.<\/p>\n
By now you have probably realized it didn’t go the way I planned. After the round of 64, only seven of my brackets were perfect, and by the time the elite eight came around only one was left unblemished.<\/p>\n
At this point I was rattled but remained hopeful. Kentucky, North Carolina, Arizona, Connecticut, Kansas, VCU, Butler and Florida remained until my dream was shattered.<\/p>\n
Only Connecticut who I picked to win remained. Connecticut went on to beat Butler, which in my opinion was one of the worst championship games played in a long time.<\/p>\n
I think I’ve seen better pick-up games and it was at that point I realized that I had become a victim to March Madness itself.<\/p>\n
I spent so much time trying to pick the right bracket I never enjoyed any of the games due to bias about who I wanted to win.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
I still make a bracket but more importantly, I enjoy the games and arguing with my friends over who is going to win it all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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