Everyone at work is filling out the brackets, watching the scores, debating the teams and crossing their fingers for certain upsets, but so far I’ve been sitting out this year’s Big Dance.

The NCAA men’s basketball tournament just doesn’t interest me as much without WSU. Two consecutive years isn’t enough to take it for granted, at least when you’re a lifelong WSU fan, but it’s enough to make a Cougs-less tournament a lot less fun.

And I have to mention that I am so so so tired of hearing people around here say Gonzaga like “Gon-ZAHG-a.” And people getting confused and mentioning the success of Washington like I’m happy about it.