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March 24, 2008

Mad About March

Start Xeroxing those brackets, strike up the Siena fight song, tell the boss you're taking a long lunch: 65 teams and 65 reasons that prove this is the best basketball month of the year

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Danielle Green

OKLAHOMA STATE, GUARD, 3.76, EDUCATION

Lauren Greif

CAL, GUARD, 3.62, UNDECLARED

Sarah-Jo Lawrence

GEORGEWASHINGTON, GUARD, 3.85, COMMUNICATIONS/SOCIOLOGY

35. BROTHER AGAINST BROTHER
This year's field features sibling solidarity—Stanford teammates Brook and Robin Lopez; Oklahoma's Taylor and Blake Griffin; and Mount St. Mary's Shawn and Sam Atupem Jr.—and rivalry: Stephen Rossiter (Davidson) and Ryan Rossiter (Siena); Tyler Hansbrough (UNC) and Ben Hansbrough (Miss. State); Joe Crawford ( Kentucky) and Jordan Crawford ( Indiana).

36. Athletic directors of doubly blessed schools shuttling between the men's and women's tournaments.

37. The trend toward playing basketball in a football megadome has yet to sweep the entire tournament: Ten of the 13 host sites—all but Detroit and Houston for the regionals and San Antonio for the Final Four—are traditional hoops arenas.

38. Even though someone other than Princeton or Penn is representing the Ivy League (that would be Cornell) for the first time in 20 years, a former Tigers coach ( John Thompson III, with Georgetown) and a former Quakers coach ( Fran Dunphy, with Temple) are still in the Dance.

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