An idiot's guide to March Madness

Every year around this time, March Madness goes viral. You start to see commercials like this everywhere you turn.

However, the less basketball-inclined among us may ask, why all the hype? What is this tournament business all about? Why isn’t my boyfriend talking to me? Why is the girl down the hall watching Murray State play Colorado State at noon on a Thursday?

Well, for starters, there are the daily upsets and buzzer beaters. Anything can happen. A school like Northern Iowa can take down mighty Kansas, and seemingly every other game is decided at the very last second.

Every game is an epic David and Goliath struggle for supremacy, and almost every under the radar team could be a Cinderella.

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