Move over midterms, make way for Madness
This year's winner was Cornell, making it the first year since 1988 that a non UPenn/Princeton team will be in the tournament. Since the tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985, an Ivy League team has only made it out of the first round three times, and never past the second round. The only guarantee in life is death, but you can be pretty sure Cornell will not advance past round two and probably will watch the second round of games from the bleachers.
5) When in doubt, go with the animal.
It would be hard for me to go back through every tournament game and determine the origin of each mascot, but in a sampling of all the final four games since 1985, there has only been one year where no teams with animal mascots were in the final four, and just under half of all final four teams in that 23-year span had mascots which were animals. Thus, if need be, it may not be a completely stupid option to pick the Belmont Bruins over Duke or UNC.
6) Anything can happen!
Nothing else really needs to be said. This is what makes March Madness so special, that anything, truly anything, can happen.
5) When in doubt, go with the animal.
It would be hard for me to go back through every tournament game and determine the origin of each mascot, but in a sampling of all the final four games since 1985, there has only been one year where no teams with animal mascots were in the final four, and just under half of all final four teams in that 23-year span had mascots which were animals. Thus, if need be, it may not be a completely stupid option to pick the Belmont Bruins over Duke or UNC.
6) Anything can happen!
Nothing else really needs to be said. This is what makes March Madness so special, that anything, truly anything, can happen.
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