Signs of March Madness Part 3: America's Thugs

Headbands? (check)
Tattoos? (check)
Scowls? (check)

After a completely wild Big East Tournament, people are falling all over themselves talking about the Syracuse Orangemen. How could you not love a team that won an overtime game against West Virginia within 24 hours of winning a six overtime game against mighty UConn? Sure they lost the final, but that was to eventual NCAA Tournament overall #1 seed Louisville. No shame there!

Their star backcourt of Johnny Flynn and Eric Devendorf is battle tested, not afrait to take a big shot and walk around with ginormous chips on their respective shoulders.

A multi-racial pair of thugs have not gotten this much love since these two:
(Extending the metaphor, Paul Harris is the Duh duh Man and Coach Boeheim the Old Man who shot Neno Brown outside the courthouse, naturally)

Congratulations to the Big East for getting 3 number 1 seeds! It's like the mid 80s all over again! I keep waiting for Chris Mullen to start leading a fast break out of no where! I can't stop typing !

Congratulations to the Big Ten for losing to every legit school they played out of conference, putting me to sleep regularly, setting basketball back several decades every time two big ten teams got together and played to a 46-43 finish, and grabbing 3 of the bottom 5 at large bids away from more deserving Mid Majors like St. Mary's (California) and Creighton or even a more deserving SEC team. Only Michigan deserved to get in, certainly not Wisconsin or Minnesota. I have said this once and I will say it again, the only good thing about the Big Ten this year is Club Trillion and Mark Titus' amusing stalking of Erin Andrews(-Titus).

This is a developing story of the tournament so far, the lack of love for the mid majors. I suspect that the lack of compelling mid majors will lead to diminished viewership of the tournament overall.

I'm just glad we can all adopt the Syracuse Orangemen for the tournament.