The Big Tournament

March Madness. This is perhaps the most entertaining month of college basketball in the year. It is every single college basketball team's dream to play in the NCAA Tournament. Selection Sunday is when all of the teams gather together and watch to see if the selection committee chose their team to play for the National Championship. When a small school hears their team name being chosen for the big tournament, they are the happiest team in the world. They are not even thinking that they are going to be playing a probable one or two seed. The fact that they got into the tournament is satisfying enough. During this time of year, everyone fills out their brackets trying to pick the one team out of the 64 who they think will be the champion. Everyone really "gets into" their brackets and others just fill them out for fun. Personally, I just fill them out for fun with my friends, and even though I usually pick the wrong team to win it all, I still have an awesome time because it is quite nerve-racking to see which team will win, and which cinderella team will upset the one seed. People do anything they can to watch the games, and the best thing about them is that they are constantly on. If there is a game at 3:00 pm, there is probably going to be a game 3:15 pm. It is just a constant month of nonstop basketball. The kids on the team play with incredible heart and they leave everything on the court. I've never seen an athlete play as hard as these kids do for the 40 minutes that they are on the court. I like college basketball a lot more than the NBA for the reason that college students play harder and they have a reason to play, which is pride. They do not have to worry about money and get caught up in it like NBA players do. March Madness is the best time of the year.

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