Letters to the Editor - March 28, 2019

The days of the Madness of March!

It’s that time of the year when insanity leaches into our peaceful, quiet lives. A time when all logic and statistics are defied, and when we can witness harrowing last seconds of a game loiter for compounded minutes as we sit on the seat edges cussing the commercial interruptions and making short work of remaining fingernails. It’s a time when madness is accepted; moreover, looked forward to.

You’ve just got to love the game! It’s some of the best basketball to be found, making the paid pros look monotonous and downright boring in comparison. The NCAA has added four play-in games to finalize the starting 64 team field, increasing television coverage and enhancing viewer attendance. It’s given some unfamiliar, adolescent teams the honor of stepping on to the court and playing with the big boys, including Wofford, a college of only 1,700 students. UCF, Liberty, Minnesota, Baylor, Murray State, Florida, Oklahoma, Oregon, UC Irvine, Iowa, Washington, and Ohio State (close to 20 percent) have all upset the brackets as underdog winners and now Vegas is rolling in the dough from the staggering volume of crippled brackets. As I said before, it’s tempestuous madness!!

As the 2019 tournament advances and hours upon hours of basketball are witnessed, as brackets are destroyed for the experts and triumphed for the novices, we sit back to watch another round of victories and defeats on the way to the Sweet 16! We witness incredible determination, bravery, audacity and heroism unfold. We see tears shed; we observe hearts broken; we are bystanders on the sidelines of defeat. It’s a time when politics and world chaos can be closeted and ignored for precious periods of time of uncontaminated, uncorrupted entertainment by young men and women who just enjoy a game played with a round ball. All in all, it is shear Madness, with a capital M!

Lee Harper, Mother of a current Wofford student

Daniel Island

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