My college basketball addiction...

My Final Four

I would love to give more analysis on this, but I've not had the time to follow college basketball this year as much as I have in the past.

Anyway, here is my Final Four.

North Carolina: I actually have them winning the whole thing, but I'm hesitant about that choice. They don't seem to put teams away, and their opponents linger until the end of games. I've seen several UNC games this year, and thought they could lose all of them (they did lose one game I saw, against Maryland).

Kansas: I have only see Kansas play one game, and it was today. They impressed me a lot. It's hard to win the Big-12, but they did it, so I give them props and see them getting to the Final Four.

UCLA: I've never liked UCLA. I saw them live, in the Adam Morrison game. I think they have an easy bracket (Duke is overrated, in my opinion), and I don't see anyone challenging them.

Texas: I've always like UT. I have two UT t-shirts, and I never attended, or applied to Texas (I was there for a week one summer while I was in grad school). I saw them lose to Kansas in the Big-12 championship game, but I think they can take care of business (and Memphis, who don't do well in big games) and get to the Final Four.

Unfortunately, I don't see MSU getting beyond the Sweet 16 this year. I think they can get by Temple and Pitt, but I think that will be the end of the road for them.

March Madness

Anyone who knows me well knows I'm a huge fan of March Madness. It's my favorite annual sporting event (the World Cup is the best sporting event, in my opinion). Unfortunately, this March, I'm surrounded by another, non-basketball-related, madness.

Last Summer, I decided to teach an extra class during the Winter quarter, which runs from early January until the end of March. It didn't seem like a big deal at the time; I would be teaching three trigonometry classes instead of two - it's been more work than I thought it would be, but it has been manageable.

I was also planning on taking 3 required MBA classes between in January and the end of June; one in January and February, one in March and April, and the third in May and June. Again, manageable.

The problem came up when the MBA class that was to run in May and June got moved to March and April, so I will have to take two required MBA classes for the next two months, if I want to finish the MBA by December (which I do).

March is the overload, overlap, month; the month where I'm teaching an overload and taking an overload. I don't know when I'll have time to do much else, so if you don't hear from me I'm either doing De Anza work, working on my business law class, or my forecasting class.

I may end up missing out of the March Madness that I enjoy, this year. Go Spartans!