Friends, it is that time of year again. The brackets are out. 68 teams across the land are ready to go dancing. Please join Robbi and me in the annual festival of hapless conjecture.

By now you know the drill. Follow this link to join our group and either reactivate your “entry” from last year or create a new one.

Our group is called Idiots’Hoopla 2016

The group is open to any and all. There is no password. Each of you may create two “entries,” so feel free to play it “safe” (picking KU or UNC, for example) with one and follow your heart (picking Duke, of course) with another.

The “first four” games start tomorrow, but the ones you have to pick begin at noon on Thursday. So make your picks by then.

The winner wins a yearlong subscription to either Bobbledy Books or Idiots’Books. Plus eternal bragging rights. That end one year from now.

Go! Join the group! Make your picks!

Robbi and I are making ours now. I will base my selections on careful study of the match-ups. Robbi will make hers based on which mascot seems more endearing or formidable. She will, inevitably, come out on top.

Such are the vagaries of March.

Why are you still reading this? GO!