March Madness

It's almost time for the NCAA tourney to begin and people everywhere are filling out their brackets.

If you'd like to do something a little different, try the "Sweet 16" game we play each year. Instead of just filling out a bracket, we pick the best sixteen teams in the tournament and rank them best to worst. The best team will get 16 points for each win, the second team will get 15 points and so on until you get to the 16th team which gets one point per win.

If you put them in the correct order, your maximum score would be 477 points. Last year I had 364 points (Thanks for nothing KU and Syracuse – both lost in the first round). The only reason I did that well was because I ranked North Carolina first and they won. That's sixteen points for each of six wins!

If you want to play along, just post your list of of sixteen, in order, in the comments section and I'll keep a running tally as we go along. The cutoff is Thursday morning.

Oh, and what does the winner get? The satisfaction of a job well done.