It's in Italian, BIPM. I will edit the title if you want.
There have been mainpage posts on the Oscars and the Super Bowl, both of them with very good responses. (The Super Bowl one was slightly more related to the event). Also, there have been March Madness-related posts in C&J, including my ill-fated ones. But there have been no real trash-talking conversations there! So I post this thread for all college basketball fans to post cheers for their team(s) and bracket speculation and criticism.
I am aware of the corruption in college basketball. This is why I feel more comfortable rooting for elite universities, because I can assume that the players can at least read, and even write(you never know). The NCAA tournament also provides publicity for the things that state universities do very well. For example, I found out about the NC State chemical engineering program last year. (I need 6 or 7 courses to start the master's degree program at Wash.U., which is very expensive.)
My No. 1 seed picks are Illinois; Duke; Louisville; Kentucky or Washington. The Big 12 winner could sneak in too.