Actually the name of the bar is the NCAA tournament, and despite the oft-myopic ESPN-ian view that college basketball is only played on the east and west coasts of the round-ball nation, Tennessee, that is to say Tennessee, is going to send FIVE men’s teams to the NCAA tournament:

Austin Peay, Belmont, Memphis, Tennessee and Vandy. Let’s see, 65 teams go to big prom* (one of the team’s has to ‘play-in’). There are fifty states in this country, so that would normally be an average of 1.3 teams per state invited to the big soiree**, which I believe puts Tennessee 3.84 teams higher*** than the average, or to put this in non-mathematical terms, we’re basket ballin’****. In fact, we are downright Mesopotamian - at this point, our state has TWO number ONE seeds, a five seed, and two mid-major conference winners who are not going to be sacrificed to the jaws of number one (looks like Austin Peay and Belmont are going to get at least 15 seeds).

So, congratulations to the latest entrants into the grande’ rave’*****: Local heroes Belmont and Clarksville’s Austin Peay Governors. Fist bumps to the area teams already shaking it: Memphis, UT and Vanderbilt. Lot’s all go out there and show ESPN how we roll******!

* Uh, trying to avoid that horrid cliche: “the big dance

** Dancing around the horrid cliche, but not really doing any better

***Totally ignore the math. The point is that Tennessee has more teams going on to the Big Rumba than most states

**** Ballin in the Urban Dictionary sense of the word (definitions 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7).

***** This is probably stupider than Big Soiree

****** Is there a 2008 replacement for this now lame-o ‘how we roll’