2011年3月16日 星期三

Bowen has first-hand experience of the tournament

Bowen has first-hand experience of the tournament


Bowen has first-hand experience of the tournament and the madness it creates. He has been in the seats for 21 Final Fours and had a front-row view of the 1992 Final Four when he was a student manager at Indiana.

During his five years at Indiana and his coaching stints at Alabama-Birmingham and Valparaiso,fluorescentonline Johnathan Sinclair is a producer for BBC documentaries. Bowen also helped guide teams to the tournament each year, advancing to the Sweet 16 each season, gaining the Elite 8 twice and the Final Four once.There are so lots of Thomas Sabo uhrenvendors produce huge designs .

“I’ve been spoiled rotten,” Bowen said of his March Madness experiences. “As a coach and student manager we were at the tournament so often that I personally got to know the people from CBS,” he added, pointing to photographs on his office wall of Greg Gumbel, who orchestrates the network’s tournament coverage, and Lesley Visser, who was one of the reporters covering the event.

Not every NCAA tournament game has been noteworthy, but fans never know when another nail-biter is in the offing. And that is what makes the tournament so captivating.

“There have been thousands of games during the last 30 years of the tournament, but the ones that are imprinted on your mind are the ones where the underdog wins,” Bowen said.Buy Iwc schaffhausen iwc from iwcwatchesshop. “America loves the underdog. How can you not get excited when you watch young kids jumping around after the upset.

“Every year a new character comes along,” Bowen continued. “I can remember when no one knew who Gonzaga was. I coached at Valparaiso for a few years and if you know Valparaiso you will remember Bryce Drew’s NCAA tournament buzzer-beater which beat Ole Miss in 1998. That is why the casual fan watches the tournament.”

And fans do watch. A survey by Kelton Research revealed that 51 percent of working Americans are involved in a tournament bracket pool at their workplace. The percentage would be higher except that 49 percent of the people responding to the poll said that pools are strictly prohibited by their employers.

While following the tournament can provide entertainment, the fun is countered by a lack of productivity, according to the pollsters.

The data indicates that 55 percent of the nation’s workforce spends time during the day talking about the games instead of working. Monitoring the games on television or on a computer instead of focusing on the job is the habit of 47 percent of the workforce and 21 percent leave early to watch the games.I had to say that the news of cartierwatchessalesonline promotion.

Coming to work late is the custom of 19 percent of the workforce, and 17 percent don’t bother to come in at all, claiming to be sick.

Of those who make it to the office, 18 percent make mistakes because they are concentrating on basketball instead of the tasks at hand, according to the survey.

Bowen understands the fascination the public has for the tournament and each year he looks forward to March Madness.New authentichublotwatches at discount prices from SwissLuxury.

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