{"id":120,"date":"2008-03-17T06:00:39","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=120"},"modified":"2008-03-06T14:28:31","modified_gmt":"2008-03-06T20:28:31","slug":"march-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/march-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"March Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/basketball1.jpg?ssl=1\" title=\"March Madness begins\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/basketball1.jpg?resize=228%2C230&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"March Madness begins\" align=\"left\" height=\"230\" width=\"228\" \/><\/a>With yesterday&#8217;s announcement of the NCAA Men&#8217;s Basketball Tournament brackets, March Madness can officially begin. Have you got your bracket filled out yet? Most newspaper sports sections print a bracket, but there are also many online sites that allow you to join or create a group. My nephew has created a group on <a href=\"http:\/\/tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com\/t1\" target=\"_blank\">Yahoo&#8217;s Basketball Tournament Pick&#8217;em<\/a> for the family for several years; after the lineups are announced on Sunday, he sends an invitation to each of us with a password. We pick our winners by the deadline (tip-off of the first game on Thursday); Yahoo takes care of keeping track of points and who&#8217;s leading in the group (our family has been continually amused by the fact that my sister-in-law beats out her sports-loving husband and sons almost every year)<\/p>\n<p>College basketball has inspired some excellent books that bring the color and drama of the game to you. John Feinstein has written some of the best including <em>Season on the Brink<\/em> about Indiana and coach Bobby Knight&#8217;s run through the Big Ten schedule,  <em>The Last Amateurs<\/em> about Division I basketball and <em>A March to Madness<\/em> about the Atlantic Coast Conference. Other books worth reading include <em>To Hate Like This is to be Happy Forever<\/em> by Will Blyth about the Duke-North Carolina rivalry, <em>Cinderella: inside the Rise of Mid-Major College Basketball <\/em>by Michael Litos and <em>The Men of March: a Season Inside the Lives of College Basketball Coaches<\/em> by Brian Curtis.<\/p>\n<p>And don&#8217;t forget, the womens NCAA Tournament is also being held beginning March 22 and concluding April 8. More information, including schedules and results for all collegiate championships can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncaa.com\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\">NCAA.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With yesterday&#8217;s announcement of the NCAA Men&#8217;s Basketball Tournament brackets, March Madness can officially begin. Have you got your bracket filled out yet? Most newspaper sports sections print a bracket, but there are also many online sites that allow you to join or create a group. My nephew has created<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/march-madness\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,13,6],"tags":[123,124,125],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-news-you-can-use","category-websites","tag-basketball","tag-ncaa","tag-tournament"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-1W","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}