Community Corner

Poll: Are You Hooping it Up in the Office Pool for NCAA Tourney?

Or is the Big Dance a Big Snore, with expectations of filling out boring brackets to win a pot?

It’s true!  Some people don’t closely follow the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. In fact, a tiny sliver of humanity doesn’t live and die by bracket picks.  But March Madness is upon us, and so are the traditional office pools. At least one expert thinks college basketball dementia is a good thing. The Huffington Post reported: “Certainly time will be taken away from tasks we’re doing, but the gain in terms of energy and overall cohesiveness in the long run will have a positive yield,” said University of Richmond psychologist Donelson Forsyth. Agree or disagree?  Add your $.02 to our poll.

And our condolences to Aztecs fans on Friday’s upset loss to North Carolina State.

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