Is there any better time of year than those first two days of the NCAA Tournament? Forty eight hours of down-to-the-wire games, buzzer-beaters, upsets and general mayhem.
It’s why millions flock to their TVs, why brackets are filled out and, for some, sick days are used (wink, wink). It’s a time on the basketball calendar when no one is safe (we’re looking at you, No. 1 seed Virginia) and when teams who seemingly don’t have a prayer of contending rise up and seize their moment. (That’s you, UMBC).
But all of that mayhem is still almost two months away.