Hello all

We Leonhardts are ready to go. Jonah and Felix watched 5 minutes of one game this year, in an auto dealership, while Laura, Eva and I were checking out minivans. That's the sum total of our family's 2008-9 NCAA knowledge. But we're ready to do battle nonetheless, proudly standing with our local American University Eagles (for one round, at least). Depending on how tomorrow morning goes, Jonah and Felix may be contributing their own bracket, too. Thanks for having us.

Method Brackets

Don't forget to enter a "joke" or "method" bracket if you like. I've now entered one, though relatively uninspired: BigEastDream. It picks Big East Teams, or the better Big East Team, to win -- and otherwise picks other big conference teams (from the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, SEC, and Pac-10) to lose. Where two smaller conference teams play each other, it picks the better team to win. Where I had to pick between two evenly-matched, non-Big East but big conference teams, I let my prejudices guide me. -------- And here's a reminder of happier (and more melodramatic) times in Rock Hill: