It starts, and possibly ends, on a Friday afternoon in Nashville, Tennessee; you never really know. Hopefully it doesn’t end; hopefully it keeps going. This single-elimination basketball is a hell of a thing.
The Texas Longhorns face the No. 7 seed Nevada Wolf Pack in the first round of the NCAA tournament. In recent years, tournament match ups with Nevada and games in Nashville haven’t been particularly kind to the Longhorns, but maybe this is the time for things to work better.
If you are like me, you probably plan your life around the first round of the NCAA tournament — two days of relentless chaos that are easily the greatest sporting event that America produces.