Osler's Razor

 What a tournament! And the best part, by far, was Loyola-Chicago knocking off 1 seed Illinois after this prayer from their team chaplain, 101-year-old Sister Jean Delores Schmidt:

"As we play the Fighting Illini, we ask for special help to overcome this team and get a great win," she said. "We hope to score early and make our opponents nervous. We have a great opportunity to convert rebounds as this team makes about 50% of layups and 30% of its 3 points. Our defense can take care of that."

Well, that worked!

And so did the tourney-themed haiku this week. We had this from Desiree, who I know went to William and Mary (we graduated together), but apparently hung around at Duke:

IPLawGuy, too, went to W & M, but haikued about another school (which is better at basketball:

ACC B-ball
Feature of my NoVa life
Then Maryland left.

And, relatedly from another W & M alum tagged as "Princeton Mom" (I see you, Beth!):

William and Mary!
Ever going to the Dance?
William and Mary!

Amy is more concerned with some other Virginia school:

Number 1 two years!
Unintended consequence
of pandemic. Fans

love Virginia's win
a little longer.

My dad brought up a sad memory:

Michigan's fab five
vs. North Carolina 

Turned on the TV
Day One, so many upsets
Many brackets done..

March winds blow cool breeze,
Flowers are budding anew,
Warm sun on bald pate.

# posted by Mark Osler @ 1:00 AM