By Matthew Waxman

18) More Raftery gold: "Send it in, Jerome."

19) The thought of NBA players watching the games and remembering how much fun basketball used to be.

20) Courtside shots of Juli Boeheim, giving hope to bald men everywhere.

21) Spine-tingling "U.S.A., U.S.A." chants by University of South Alabama fans.

22) No anxiety attacks caused by watching the non-stop flapping of the St. Joe's Hawk.

23) Actually watching Nevada mystery man Nick Fazekas play for the first time.

24) Lying in a pool of Nerf balls with C-List celebrities like Miles Simon

25) TNT running Blue Chips, an Oscar nominee for Unintentional Comedy, on loop.

26) The return of Chris Webber's recurring "time out" dream.

27) The return of Iona coach Jeff Ruland, who was last heard from while playing for the 76ers and claiming a Celtics employee had intentionally rammed his Achilles with a luggage cart.

28) MSU's Matt Trannon being wheeled into warmups on a gurney.

29) More air time for Texas A&M forward and American Idol hopeful Chris Walker.

30) The possibility of filling out the perfect bracket -- the odds of which, if picked randomly, are 1 in 18 quintillion 446 quadrillion. "So you're telling me there's a chance..."

31) Shockers (Wichita State) back in the spotlight for something other than being a sign of the times.

31) Memphis' Darius Washington's shot at redemption.

33) BC's Craig Smith's python forearms. 

34) The chance of seeing Heather Pittsnogle, wife of Kevin, who according to Deadspin, has been spotted at WVU games wearing a T-shirt that says, "I Got Pittsnogled" with an arrow pointing downwards.

35) Villanova's Allan Ray's eye-popping comeback.

36) 'Nova coach Jay Wright's quest to bring back the three-piece button-down suit

37) Having an undisputed college national championship decided by players, not pollsters and politics.

38) The Billy Packer drinking game.

39) Arizona-Wisconsin: The Culture Clash game.

40) In Zona v. Nova, we're taking the Wildcats

41) Listening to a friend who doesn't follow sports rationalize their picks. ("George Washington was one of my favorite presidents...Forest green is the color of their uniforms and my Suburu...")

42) Watching the excitement Monmouth felt thumping Hampton and knowing they were about to be fed to the lions.