It's a great day to be a U of U alum and basktball fan!

So, there you have it!  U of U men's basketball team made the brackets for the 2015 NCAA B-Ball Tournament - really the first time in a few years. This year however, marks the 16th time they will have made it to the "sweet 16" -- 16 top teams in the tournament.  They did so with interesting and somewhat impressive wins vs. SFA University and Georgetown.  Pretty exciting. 

The Twitter comments were all over the place as the UTES cinched the win over Georgetown -- by many former UTE b-ball players like Keith Van Horn, Jimmy Soto, Josh Grant and even Jason Washburn.  It's been a fun season to say the least.  We've had season tickets since Annie and Haley were very young (likely the same ages as Molly and Jack).  We've been in the same seats - Section TT, row 37, seats 8-11 for all those years.  Now there are 11 of us attending the games, same section and area and it couldn't be more fun. 

Willie is living the season via his dad's lengthy, weekly emails.  He has a copy of the brackets and Karl will give a full tournament report and play by play to the smallest detail in this week's letter.  I suggested going to Las Vegas to watch the PAC-12 tourney and then to Portland for the first round of the tournament and he said he's rather wait and go with Willie (sniff, sniff - I know where I stand).  the picture is UTE player Jacob Poeltl (Cindy says he reminds her of Willie).