March Madness

Hey! How's it going everyone?

Today, I am back for another edition of the RitzBitz Blog. Today's topic is about March Madness. If you have no idea what March Madness is it has to do with basketball. Illinois Fighting Illini basketball team is wrapping up their regular season in two weeks before they compete in the Big Ten Conference Tournament. The Illini are currently ranked 20th in the nation in the Associated Press Poll. They are 22- 6 and 10-5 in the Big Ten Conference. They have two more hard matches to face. The Michigan State Spartans and the Penn State Nittany Lions. These two teams have beaten the Illini once already this year. It will be important for Illinois to beat these teams once to show them that they can beat them in the regular season. In the future, the Illini might have to face one of these teams in the Big Ten Tournament. As of right now, the Illini are in the NCAA basketball tournament. In my opinion, I think they are a three or four seed. All it takes is for one team in the 65 team tournament to get hot and win six straight games to win the National Title and the Illini are trying to do that. If the Illini continue to play tough defense and get good scoring with their three or four players over ten points a game they will be tough to beat.

In other basketball news, the Teutopolis Wooden Shoes will be facing the St. Anthony Bulldogs tonight at St. Anthony in the Class 2A regional semifinals. The shoes are the three seed and the bulldogs are the two seed. The winner will have the right to face the Marshall Lions in the Regional Championship game. The Lions are the 4th ranked team in state and are 26-0. The shoes do have there hands full, but they have been in this situation before in the past, and hopefully they can win both of these games.

That is going to do it for today's RitzBitz Cracker blog. Next time I am going to see how the Shoes and Bulldogs game went. Until next time be kind and rewind.