Nosy Boss Alert: Afternoon Basketball Starts Today

If you thought you had to wait until the Thursday/Friday first round NCAA games to start furtively checking your gametracker, you are wrong. The Atlantic Sun tournament is helpfully giving us a 3:15 game between Mercer (beat USC this year) and Jacksonville (has a huge anthropomorphic Dolphin as mascot) today.

Jacksonville is the #2 seed in the A-Sun, thanks to a stellar 12-4 conference season. Their craptastic 16-12 overall record has a lot to do with the mid-major curse: they played the entire month of December on the road, and lost every danged game. Mercer, as mentioned, made big noise by beating Southern Cal in L.A. their first game out, but lost more than they won in conference play, landing them in the bottom half of the A-Sun.

If you don't know who to root for, or just don't care, weigh this in your considerations: NBA legend Artis Gilmore is a Jacksonville Dolphin, and their logo is extremely cool. Not that I'm advocating one team over the other, you understand. Just providing useful information.