Live . . . It's Monday Night!

It's Selection Monday . . . and if that alone isn't enough to get you interested . . . this evening, the Terps will be one of four featured teams on ESPN's Selection Show broadcast (ESPN & ESPNHD at 7 PM) . Camera crews visited College Park last week, filming some inteviews and footage of the Terps and later today they will be broadcasting live from Coach B's house!

Not only will we learn where the Terps -- and the rest of the Gang of 64 -- will be going and who they'll be playing along the way, but we have it on the best authority that Markus and Tyler will be giving their first nationally televised on-camera interviews. You don't want to miss what they have to say about the brackets!

We already know the Terps will be playing their first two games at home in Comcast Center on March 23 and 25. But what we don't know is who they'll be facing in those first two games. We also don't yet know who else may be playing their first two rounds in College Park. Will UConn or the Lady Vols or Jeff Walz's Louisville Cardinals be landing soon at BWI? Well, we'll find out tonight.

But perhaps the bigger question to be answered is: after round 2 (don't even think about an early exit this year!), where will the Terps and some of their fans be heading then? Will they be going back to Greensboro . . . or out to Spokane . . . or to Oklahoma City . . . or down to the Big Not So Easy? And, more important, which teams will be in their bracket -- who stands between them and a return visit to the Final 4?

We don't traffic in the speculative bracketology that seems to consume so many these days, so while the Terps will be watching at Coach B's, we'll just be planted nervously in front of our TV (as we expect you will be, well, in front of your TV that is) tonight at 7 PM . . . tuned to the Selection Show on ESPN/ESPNHD, when all will be revealed!

By the way, ESPN's Selection Monday show will be hosted by the dynamic treo of Trey Wingo (not to be confused with Drey Mingo), Stacey "I love you Kristi Toliver" Dales, and Kara "Pee Wee football" Lawson. That should make the show even more fun.

By the way, it is March 17th, so the BasketCases wish a Happy St. Patrick's Day to all . . . and may the Luck of the Irish be with you, and especially with the Terps . . . tonight and throughout this Mad (but fun!) time of year!