March Madness

March Madness means its time for one of my favorite Fitzgerald traditions- second only to the annual Christmas Tree hunt. Every year my family gathers to watch the Selection Show and draw teams for the NCAA tournament. I wrote all about the history of it here.

Every year we draw teams differently. This year Jonathan had the idea to draw teams by family instead of individuals. So the Fitzs, the Caskeys, the Carlisles and the little Fitzs each drew 16 teams to pull for. This year we drew seeds out before the show and then watched to see who we had drawn.

Sienna managed to pull both Duke and Kentucky for us. Seriously.
We ended up with:
9 N Iowa
5 Michigan St
3 Georgetown
15 UC Santa Barbara
1 Kentucky
12 Cornell
7 Clemson
2 West Virginia
16 Vermont
13 Murray St
6 Xavier
10 Florida
1 Duke
7 Richmond
10 St Marys
2 Villinova

So if you read those teams, you'll realize we have 8 teams left. 8 of the Sweet Sixteen belong to the Caskeys. Too bad there is never any prize. We managed to draw some of the big upsets and have 3 of the 4 lowest seeds still left (12,10,9). Its been really fun to cheer as a family although as long as there are cheerleaders and a band, our daughters are perfectly content.