Buffalo, New York
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The thing that always gets me on the first day of the NCAA Tournament are the school buses, the ones chugging along stuffed with kids. Because it is, of course, Thursday morning and this is what ordinary people do on a Thursday morning.
Kids go to school. Grown-ups go to work or pick up their laundry or go to the grocery store. Not everyone, apparently, is spending the day in a 12-hour marathon of hoops.
What a pity for them.
Because while the final day of the NCAA Tournament is the most exciting, the best day is the first. No matter where you are, no matter how the games play out, it is a glorious timeout from reality. Not a…