Part of the madness of March is rooting for teams you never gave a thought to before. Last night I became a big Oakland University fan – they were playing perennial powerhouse Kentucky, and I never do brackets – all the while believing the school was in located somewhere in the Bay area. (Googling just now, I saw that the school is in Michigan.) The number of three-point shots that went in, for both teams, was incredible in the second half, but the Golden Grizzlies (love that name) hung on to win 80-76. And, sitting at home, conforming to the psychological tenor of the month, I felt enormous joy for a school I thought was somewhere else.
