San Diego is My Home

19
Mar

Let’s Talk Basketball

Author: HelenKay, Category: Events & Happenings, Sports

Even if you’re not a college basketball fan or your team is not participating (for me, it’s Syracuse University and I’m despondent about it), you know something big is going on in the sports world.  Yep.  It’s NCAA March Madness time.  If you don’t know what that means, for the mens’ teams it’s basically a time for the (supposed) top 64 college teams to play round after round of basketball until the National Champion emerges. 

And what does this have to do with you other than the fact regular television programming will be affected at one point?  Well, you can win money.  It is inevitable someone in your office will send around a bracket listing all of the teams, ask you to guess at the winners of each game and tell you to hand over $5, $10 or some other amount in order to participate in the office pool.  The women also play a basketball tournament (NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament), but that one tends to get less attention.  They both deserve a shout out, so here we go…

Two local teams made it to the big dance.  Both teams happen to come from the same school.  The USD women’s team won the West Coast Conference Tournament (wahoo!) and enter the Tournament as a No. 14 seed.  The lady Toreros play Cal on Saturday.  The USD men’s team, a No. 13 seed, play Connecticut (UConn) on Friday.  And let the first rounds of each Tournament begin.

Good luck to both teams.