But just like those March winds and April tornados, there will be chaos. I look at my Kansas Jayhawks' chances and make my choices with both my brain and my emotions.
There's two ways to look at KU each year. There's the idea that KU always has a puncher's chance to get hot and win the championship, like the '88 team that finished no better than 4th place in the Big 8 that year.
The problem is that if I were to pick them for the championship that year, that would have been met with scorn and ridicule as an emotional pick.
Then there are years like 1997 when Kansas was by far the best team in the nation. With Raef LaFrentz and Paul Pierce, Jacque Vaughan and the like, they were the odds-on favorite to win it all that year. That's when they ran into a hot Arizona team in the Sweet 16 who had underachieved all year and caught fire at the right moment.
They were easily my pick to win it all, and I was scorned for making an emotional pick.
Had the Jayhawks been able to hit 50% of their free throws in the 2003 championship game, we would have had another banner. So forget about 2008. That miracle was a makeup for the 1997 and '03 seasons.
So when the first games start today and higher seeds begin to fall, I will keep a close eye on my bracket. The real question will be whether my pick of Kansas to win it all was rational or emotional. With this team, it's hard to tell.
