And the award for the best college almost named after a crayon goes to....

So today and tomorrow are like the only days of the year that I actually get really excited for sports. The first two days of the NCAA tournament are my favorite part of sports. I love, love, LOVE when a tiny little school ends up in the tournament and the general look of glee on the faces of the players. Because you just know that this is the biggest moment in their lives thus far. (I realize that the players on the big powerhouse teams probably experiencing same thing but I think is a different sort of glee between the teams that are expected to be there and those that got there through some random chain of events.)

My favorite team this year is Siena. Mainly because when I was looking at the bracket and saw Siena, and thought, "Isn't that a Crayola crayon?" It turns out that the crayon is actually Burnt Sienna, but nevertheless, I am now officially a fan of the small New York liberal arts college.

So in the spirit of the day, I made basketball cookies for the office. I also attempted basketball player cookies but their uniforms ended up looking like a man's old-fashioned swimsuits or those awful unitards that wrestlers wear.

I also attempted a Coach K cookie but I don't know that I completely captured the "Coach K angry face." I was told that I needed to add a speech bubble with profanity coming out it to completely capture him...but I try to keep the content of the blog G-rated.

P.S. "What was up with Duke this evening?" LOL, this is the content of the many texts that lit up my phone this evening. Luckily, they won...barely...and I stress ate a half of a bag of jelly beans.

So here picks are my for the Final Four:

• Pitt
• Wisconsin (The last time they made it to the Final Four, I was out of the country. They kinda owe me.)
• UCLA
• North Carolina (It pains me to pick them.)
  

Champion: North Carolina...again, it pains me. But I have watched exactly one complete college basketball game this year and it was a North Carolina game...and they just looked like a good team. Plus, I have never met him or anything but their coach, Roy Williams just seems like a nice guy. Like the kind of guy you would see at Home Depot or Target on a Saturday morning. And I saw an interview or press conference with him shortly after the UNC student body president was murdered and his expression of the grief and horror of the situation was just so eloquent that I got goosebumps.