Two words; March Madness. 

My predictions for what will happen over the next three weekends

1. North Carolina will not repeat as National Champions
2. I will root for every West Coast team getting my hopes up yet again that the East Coast bias that permeates ESPN, CBS, and the entire sports media establishment will fall faster than George W’s approval ratings. 
3. UCSB will not lose a single game for the fourth year in a row*.
4. Dick Vitale will get more excited than a freshman at his first fraternity rush party.
5. Duke will play every game in the most favorable time slot for CBS, somewhere around 8pm Eastern Time
6. Pacific will actually make it out of the first round AGAIN.  Pacific will not make it past the second round AGAIN
7. the television ratings will beat the most recent Winter Olympics, NBA All-Star Game and inaugural World Baseball Classic . . . COMBINED
8. Gonzaga (West #3) will play UCLA (West #2) in the Sweet Sixteen in the best matchup of the tournament. 
9. We’ll all learn the name of at least one mascot with a weird name (Anteaters, Gauchos or Banana Slugs) from a school we’ve probably never heard of before and realize why it is we so love this tournament.
10. JJ Reddick and Adam Morrison will remind us that white guys can still play college hoops.
11. Coack K (Duke) will fail yet again to win his fourth national championship
12. UCLA fans will rejoice in remembering why it is that USC is still only a one-sport school. 
13. One of the Number 1 seeds (Memphis) will not survive the second round
14. At least one #12 seed will upset their #5 seeded opponent and we’ll all wonder why that is still considered an upset. 
15. the bookies in Vegas are all going to make out like bandits.
16. Gonzaga will shock the world and win the NCAA championship.  You heard it here first. 

* = UCSB, my alma mater, has not appeared in the NCAA Tournament since 2002.