This post is written by assistant coach Marcus Moeller:
Tomorrow marks the 1st day of March. To some, it will come and go with little recognition, but to college basketball fans across the country, it marks the beginning of the most exhilarating time of the year. Die hard fans consider it better than Christmas and Thanksgiving. Simply put, the month of March...is Madness.
The tern "
March Madness" was coined by the Illinois High School Executive Secretary, H.V. Porter in 1939, in a poem titled "The Basketball Ides of March". Billy Packer, however, is the one that made the expression famous when CBS took over broadcasting rights of the Men's NCAA Division 1 National Tournament. Now you can't go a day in the month of March without seeing the term on TV or hearing it on the radio, as companies nationwide have capitalized on its familiarity and visibility. From high school on up to Division 1, March marks the postseason tournaments in the game of basketball all over the nation.This past Thursday we knocked off the University of Nebraska at Omaha, 73-62, to solidify our position in madness that is the MIAA postseason conference tournament, for the 10th straight season. The brackets have just been released and we are scheduled to play the University of Central Missouri on Thursday at 8:15pm. If you have never been to the MIAA tournament at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, you must come see us play on Thursday. The MIAA does an unbelievable job of running a first class tournament and you will not go home disappointed.
This season has s
hown the unbelievable parody that exists in the MIAA conference. The conference championship was decided by one game, seeds 5 through 9 was determine by a 2 game margin, and one team in our league rattled off 7 wins in their last 9 games to qualify on the last weekend for the tourney! One head coach in our league even went as far as to say the league is as tight and close as it has been in his 20 years in the league. This type of parody is what makes March Madness so fun. Expect the unexpected, because anything can (and usually does) happen.Until next time...It's a GREAT day to be a LION!!
Marcus Moeller
Assistant Coach
