It’s March, y’all! Selection Sunday is a little more than a week away and that means four of the best days on the sports calendar, Rounds of 64 and 32 in the NCAA Tournament, are right around the corner. Men’s college basketball is wide open this season; there aren’t any dominant teams, so the men’s tournament should be particularly wild.
Just remember: brackets are like fantasy football. Nobody really wants to hear about yours. We’ve all had a bracket busted. We’ve all picked the right Cinderella team. For many of us, a bracket filled out by drawing lots will be as or more successful than the ones we fill out based on whatever random reasons happen to be at the front of our minds when the email to submit our entries goes out. Let’s spare each other the bracket talk this year.
Although I filled one out at the 11th hour last year for a casual pool, I haven’t been doing them lately. And you know what, I’ve enjoyed the tournament more when I haven’t been obsessively checking the CBS Sports app to see how I’m stacking up. It’s fun to be able to root for maximum chaos instead of having your entry ruined by UVA being the first #1 seed to lose to a #16.
Plus, you know what I’m more excited for this March? All the [insert whatever topic] brackets that every website on the world wide web is going to bombard me with for the next four weeks. In theory, its Because who doesn’t love a recycled, played-out idea thrown together for cheap clicks.
In this rest of this post, I’ll be giving you a bracket of my ideas to help me select the subject for the random-topic bracket I’m eventually going to…just kidding.
Here’s my idea: we have one more bracket built from all the silly, non-college basketball brackets puts out there for #content and #engagement. And then we declare the idea officially dead and off-limits.
Yes, I’m aware of the irony.
The Lukewarm Take 