NCAA tournament is best time of year for sports fans

NCAA tournament is best time of year for sports fans: Distinctly Catholic: It's no secret that I'm a University of Connecticut fan, and with the UConn women's basketball team's 107 consecutive wins, March Madness this year is especially thrilling.

MGB:_The NCAA tournament is where both die-hards and non-fans pay attention and place their bets. Sometimes the non-fans win because any given game can go either way (except when the top seed and the bottom seed play). In the women’s tournament, U Conn winning is a given. The bracket challenge comes from predicting everything else. Fear the Turtle.

U Conn shows why college needs to be split into the first two years, which should be added to the last two years of high school and be where competitive athletics happens with champships at the state level, and the last two years of college to be combined with graduate school (and funded by future employers, not parents). The girls of U Conn should be paid for what they do in the professional women’s league. Tech schools should also be at the high school/Jr. ccollege level and let the rivalries begin.