At some point a principled moratorium developed resulting in the personal avoidance of actively engaging in the conspicuous consumption of coffee before lunchtime. Most conspicuous coffee consumers specialize in the active practice of early morning consumption. For some reason actually enjoying coffee seems to require a few hours of reflection before engaging in coffee consumption. Drinking other caffeine containing beverages during early morning hours is not actually a part of the moratorium. For some reason even diet soda beverages that contain caffeine seem to fit the bill during the first few moments of the day.
Today is an interesting day inspired by an early morning glass of water. For the rest of the day the first moments of each hour will be devoted to drinking one glass of water. Maybe today is not the best day to give up all caffeine, but random decisions are normally made for random reasons.
What makes today special and worth celebration is the start of the 2007 National Collegiate Athletic Association March Madness. Recently Jeff Sagarin a well known sports statistician actually ranked all 336 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) men’s division one basketball teams. As of this morning 64 out of the 336 teams still feel a degree of hope about potentially winning a college basketball national championship.
If the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) simply invited 256 teams to the eight round national tournament, then Jeff Sagarin’s ranking of all 336 teams would be incredibly useful for seeding.
During the first week in March the first round of the national basketball tournament 256 teams would play 128 games at the home court of the higher ranked team. Administratively the first few rounds of a national tournament would require utilizing the college campuses of the higher ranked teams. During the second round the remaining 128 teams would have to play 64 games at the home court of the higher ranked team. For the third round of the complete national tournament 64 teams would play 32 games at the home court of the higher ranked team.
After the conclusion of the first three rounds of the national tournament the 32 remaining teams would take a week off before playing 16 games during the fourth round of the tournament at the home court of the higher ranked team. After the first four rounds of the tournament the top 16 teams would relocate to a single national tournament location for the 16 team fifth round, 8 team sixth round, 4 team seventh round, and the two team national championship game.
Would adding two rounds to the national tournament really be impossible?
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