Jerome Seagears takes the reasonable approach: That if you look too far ahead, if you fret about what might occur months from now, if you glance beyond today, there is every chance you will encounter an impediment dangerous to your health.
"Crawl before you can walk," he said. "You can't worry about the future, or you'll fall in a ditch."
The future is always about three weeks in March, because fair or not, sensible or foolish, right or wrong, college basketball teams and those who coach them are ultimately judged on how they perform once the madness begins.