Fun Fact Friday!

Happy Friday to everyone, it's quite lovely outside today in the Big Eug and you know I will be taking advantage of that later. As for the Fun Fact for this week, I originally was going to inform the world on the beer drinker's Christmas, St. Patrick's Day, but after last night at the MSG I cannot contain my excitement of college basketball. In case you've never heard of a television set or the internet, you probably know that sports fest known as the NCAA National Championship tournament will be set this sunday. The tournament is affectionatly known as, "March Madness," but anyone who pays attention knows that the true "Madness" starts with the confrence championship tournaments. Regardless of size of school, student body, or arena if you are a division 1 school and you win your confrence tournament, you are automatically in the National Championship tournament. Thus, guys will play until their limbs melt off of their torso in attempts to be apart of the Big Dance. There is no better example than what was put on display at Madison Square Garden of what March Madness means to these teams. Syracuse and Conneticut played to a 127-117 decision that advanced Syracuse in their confrence tournament. High scoring NBA game right? Well it took SIX OVERTIMES for this game to be decided. The game started at 9:30 P.M. and ended at 1:22 A.M. Eight players fouled out, four for each team. Every player on each benched played some minutes. Overtimes are five minutes each, so that means an extra complete one half and a half (that makes no sense, two halves in a game each twenty minutes, an extra thirty minutes). Unbelievable.

Enjoy your weekend, hopefully you wont have to work half as hard this weekend as any of those guys did,

PROST

P.S. Just in, Coach Bellotti stepped down as head coach. He has had the highest amount of Pac-10 wins than any other Oregon coach, and really took the program to new heights. Thanks Coach B.