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Here’s Alex and my re-cap from Round 1, Round 2 and Round 3 of March Madness.
This final one will be short and sweet.
Partly because this year’s installment of March Madness – the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament – yielded one of my worst ever predictive performances, but mostly because it’s now out of our community’s collective consciousness and, as a blog that explores community, we must honour this. [Editor’s note: the tourney was pretty boring, too – for the first time I can remember, there wasn’t a single buzzer-beater and, well, everyone knew that Kentucky was going to win]. That’s right, folks, following their historic run to the championship, the starting lineup of the Kentucky Wildcats will be heading to the National Basketball Association (NBA) and their coach, in the years to come, will probably be investigated for illegal recruiting practices, which is pretty much what happened to Jim Calhoun after his UConn Huskies won the championship last year.
Go, um, sports?
Anyway, congrats to Alex and Robin for picking Kentucky to win it all. I think that Robin won (Alex, in the last three years of us doing this Robin has won twice and Michelle has won once), which was how this was supposed to happen. And congratulations to the Kansas Jayhawks for having the nicest community-building fans in the nation.
As always, this is one of my favourite series on the Gumboot, folks. And I thank you all for providing the metrics, attitude, witticisms, sportitude, and energy as we explored one of the most fascinating community-based stories in sport.
Thanks for the memories. See you next year!