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Yes, it's this period of the year again. For nearly a month, your TV is all faces and painted mascots, your work banner is all about the "Buzzer Beats", and you are all guaranteed to be $ 10 poorer after completing a support. Yes, it's "Mars Makness". And the NCAA tournament this year - especially after a surprise of Carolina South VSE DUKE - Certainly live up to his name.

But where does this name come from?

Well, just like your favorite Cinderella tournament, the term "Mars Madness" has rather humble origins, going back up with the Second World War. Upon arrival, the sentence was originally applied to a high school basketball tournament run by the Allinois High School Association.

In 1939, the IHSA executed a state basketball tournament for nearly 40 years when Henry V. Porter, an IHSA employee, wrote a love letter to the tournament of the official publication of the organization, theIllinois interscholastic. He called it "March Madness".

The name finally took off among the sports authors and was used for the first time in reference to the NCAA tournament in 1982, when the Love-it-or Loathe broadcaster, Brent Musberger worked for CBS. "And so I just applied" Mars madness "to that," said Musberger in an interview withThe rich emission of Eisen Last year.

"March Madness" has become the subject of legal action between the NCAA and the IHSA in the 1990s, but the two optionally resolved.

So there you have it. Now you can impress your friends at the sport bar this weekend with your knowledge about the trivia instead of crying on the ribbed remains of your support.

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