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If you're not already in multiple bracket pools, then you and I probably don't know each other very well. And if you've already gone to the trouble of picking all 63 Tournament games, then it won't hurt you to enter the pool where the only prize up for grabs is the pride in knowing that you're smarter than a significant portion of the sports blogging community. So please take a minute to compete in the FanHouse Bracket Challenge with the following information:

URL: http://fantasysports.aol.com/bracketmania/bpm/
LeagueID: 12267
Password: madness
Note: Must have an AOL or AIM screen name to enter.

Thank you. Now, to get you in the mood for the Tournament, as if you aren't already after watching Kevin Durant take Kansas to the wire, check out this video -- via FanHouse -- from the final seconds of the 1982 title game (you know, the one where Michael Jordan buries the jumper to beat Georgetown) ...

Ah, grainy but great. What I never knew about that finish is that Georgetown's Fred Brown came down after MJ's jumper and blatantly passed the ball -- and the championship -- away to the wrong guy, James Worthy in Carolina Blue! Forgive me if that's common knowledge, but I was 4 years old at the time and would love to make up for it by watching every minute of a 25th anniversary UNC-G'town rematch this year in the Elite Eight.

And if that video doesn't do it for you, search 'One Shining Moment' on YouTube and let the cheesy nostalgia rain down on you like so many Steve Alford jumpers (1987 comes highly recommended).

More: Here are other web-friendly Tournament competitions for you ...

Deadspin | NBX | Awful Announcing | Dan Shanoff | Can't Stop the Bleeding | With Leather | Hoops Addict

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• #1 Comment from monponsett 
  3/14/07 10:27 AM | Permalink

  Either I'm older than you or I was more attuned to this game as Ewing hailed from Cambridge..... I can remember Pat B. Spewing simply gobbling up everything thrown at the rim for the first 5 minutes, goaltending be damned. I was long in my bed when it fell apart for the G-Unit.