Even though Kansas and Memphis are still battling (as I type this) to see who will be the NCAA Men's Basketball Champion this year, we already know who the winners are in the SCILS March Madness tournament. Top honors go to the no-longer-mysterious A V (Alena Vasilyeva, that is), who pulled ahead by having Memphis in the finals.  Second place goes to Dr. Jen Theiss and third place was won by Reesa

Well, here we are one week later, and March Madness is...still a fun distraction from everything else.  In some ways, there is predictability here (#1 seeds all advancing as no one expected and AV--really the basketball guru Alena Vasilyeva--continues to lead our pool).  In other ways, there has been much excitement (Davidson missing a final shot that would have sent them to the Final Four as a

Before I give an update on the March Madness Basketball Pool here in SCILS, let me quickly address two concerns others have already raised.  First, this is a pool for the men's tournament and as much as I personally would like to be in one for the women also (especially given the success of our team here at Rutgers), I don't have the resources to run that pool also. Second, for the purists among