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March Madness: Why lack of Madness might be a good thing moving forward

By Jacob Matteson

PITTSBURGH, PA - MARCH 15: A general view of the court with March Madness signage is seen prior to the start of the game between the OklahomaSooners and the Rhode Island Rams in the first round of the 2018 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament at PPG PAINTS Arena on March 15, 2018 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images)
PITTSBURGH, PA - MARCH 15: A general view of the court with March Madness signage is seen prior to the start of the game between the OklahomaSooners and the Rhode Island Rams in the first round of the 2018 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament at PPG PAINTS Arena on March 15, 2018 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images) /
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COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA – MARCH 22: De’Andre Hunter #12 of the Virginia Cavaliers celebrates after a play in the second half against the Gardner Webb Runnin Bulldogs during the first round of the 2019 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament at Colonial Life Arena on March 22, 2019 in Columbia, South Carolina. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)
COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA – MARCH 22: De’Andre Hunter #12 of the Virginia Cavaliers celebrates after a play in the second half against the Gardner Webb Runnin Bulldogs during the first round of the 2019 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament at Colonial Life Arena on March 22, 2019 in Columbia, South Carolina. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images) /

March Madness is known for the crazy finishes, breath-taking upsets and unthinkable. Logic would dictate that March is a little less special when the Madness is missing…but that just isn’t the case for the 2019 Tournament.

I love March.  You love March.  How can we not?  From the moment the brackets get unveiled all the way to the confetti drifting down to the hardwood while a group of young men gleefully celebrate, there’s so much that captures our imaginations as sports fans.  It’s March Madness, after all!

But is some of the mystique lost when the madness in actuality is just normalcy?

For anyone who has spent more than a minute watching the tournament this year, it’s been a more chalkier than usual tournament field.  Outside of a few games, both of which seemed to be this years trendy 12/5 upset with Oregon over Wisconsin or Ja Morant doing what he does best, or the UC-Irvine Anteaters knocking off a hobble Kansas State squad, there hasn’t been much in way of true madness that we’re accustomed to.

LSU vs. Maryland came down to the buzzer, Iowa put the scare in to Tennessee and that UCF/Duke match-up?  That’s probably the best game we’ve had.  But where’s the madness?

If you’ve been feeling a little short changed in the sense that you haven’t had the high octane excitement that you may have been hoping for, I’m here to calm your nerves and to break down why the 2019 March Madness tournament has been nothing short of ideal.

Even without the madness.

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