Where's the 'Madness' in March Madness?

Coming in a year where there seems to be a lot less drama than is to be expected from the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament (with the elite 8 being comprised of all 4 #1 seeds, 2 #2s, and 2 #3s), I beg the answer to the question, where is the 'madness' in March Madness? Your boy has the solution.

I don't know how many of you used to watch Nickelodeon GUTS back in the day. But if you didn't you should have, especially since you had years of syndication to catch it. The show provided us with 3 kids around the age of 13 who would dress up in outrageous athletic gear of three feuding colors (Blue, Red, and Purple) and compete against one another in activities that were even more outrageous than their attire and equipment. These kids would paddle across swimming pools while balancing on boogie boards, smash big wheels into Styrofoam stones, and eventually climb a plague filled mountain in hopes of earning a piece of it. What an adventure.

Now imagine UConn's Hasheem Thabeet, UNC's Tyler Hansbrough, and Pittsburgh's Dejuan Blair dressed in blue, red, and purple bike shorts with harnesses strapped to each of them. Imagine a basketball hoop placed in the middle of a room, or rather a tee with a basketball placed on top of it 25 feet in the air. Strap bungee chords to their harnesses, give them a minute and a half and see which one of them can grab the most basketballs off of the tee. Now that's madness. Set up three hoops thirty feet high and see who could slam home the most basketballs. Set up one hoop in the middle and have one team defend it for the first half and switch off for the second half. Best score wins.

Let's use our imaginations, let's use our memories. Let's infuse some true 'madness'. The GUTS way.