First, due mostly to past winners not claiming their prizes created by the overworked and underpaid ALDLAND staff, I have made the decision to officially disband our March Madness bracket challenge and swing the support of our legions of readers and participants to the bracket challenge hosted by the favorite band in the AD household by ranked-choice voting, the Tedeschi Trucks Band. Enter here:

Second, there are a number of good actual and potential tournament matchups on which to keep at least one of your eyes this month:

• First round:
  • Wisconsin-Oregon (obviously)
  • Villanova-St. Mary’s
  • Iowa State-Ohio State
  • Buffalo-St. John’s
  • Marquette-Murray State
  • Louisville-Minnesota
  • LSU-Yale
  • Virginia Tech-St. Louis
• Second round:
  • Michigan-Nevada
  • Cincinnati-Tennessee
  • Wofford-Kentucky
• Sweet Sixteen:
  • Houston-Kentucky
  • Texas Tech-Michigan
  • UNC-Auburn
• Elite Eight:
  • Duke-Michigan State
• Final Four:
  • UC Irvine-Abilene Christian

Third, in case you were wondering, the NCAA still hasn’t fixed its absurd play-in round problem. Background here.

Have fun and surrender to the madness.