WE SOLICIT YOUR ATTENTION. Today is Selection Sunday, which means little work will be done tomorrow morning as the annual ritual called the office pool gets organized. The Fairfield Community Foundation is again raising funds, by way of an online office pool, for the Timothy J. Hines memorial fund. The fundraising coordinator is Jim Wessel, American Metal Fabricators, 5574 Wooster Pike, Cincinnati, OH 45227. He receives electronic mail at jwessel6 at yahoo dot com. The entry form is the online bracket form at Netpick. The closing deadlines are noon Thursday, 20 March for bracket sheets (apparently the play-in game is irrelevant) and Thursday, 27 March for entry donations.

Elsewhere around the tournaments, apparently the Big Dance and the National Invitational Tournaments aren't enough. There's now a College Basketball Invitational for the also²-rans.

A team with a record under .500 can be selected for the NIT, but that might be a long shot. [Not-the-Huskies coach Bruce] Weber wants to keep playing, even if that means lobbying for a bid in the College Basketball Invitational, a third postseason tournament this winter.

It's amateur sport. It has nothing to do with money.

On the ice, the Wisconsin women's hockey team ousted Minnesota in overtime, to advance to the NCAA semifinals in Duluth.

ONE. TWO. WE! WANT! MORE!