More like March bordum

Every year, I have filled out a bracket for the NCAA basketball tournament since college. I have always just done it for fun and just to somehow draw my interest into the games. Basketball bores me. Watching hockey as often as we did living in Michigan, everything else just seems like a slow game (except rugby and lacrosse), but holy shit basketball drags on. Don't get me wrong, watching the college games is fun just because the majority of them are so close.

This year for my bracket, I had to pay attention to my picks because I got into a bracket pool with a few friends. Nothing crazy, just five dollars. All in all, there are eight of us, so the winner walks away with a thirty five dollar profit. Something fun to do and the winner gets more than bragging rights. Not that goes very far anyways except for about a month after the tournament and the next year because the winner has to 'defend' his crown.

Not only did I pay closer attention to what teams I picked, but I have been watching more of the games. I think that they should move to a system that just has the clock continuously running to speed up the game. Either that or take away the insanely large amount of time outs that each team gets. Seriously, it seemed liked after every shot was made teams were taking time outs. How many do they get? I know that they have thirty second time outs and full time outs, but why not take one or two away from the teams? Look at hockey, each team gets one time out. That's it, and they rarely get used. The beauty of a sport like hockey, just the fact that the clock is always running or only stopped for a short period of time.