Madness Encircles Buzz
By Erik Gunther
Originally published Mon, March 13, 2006, 5:00 pm PST

Interest in the NCAA Basketball Tournament just continues to grow, year over year. Without the Web and your insatiable thirst for college hoops, we would likely be in the dark ages of bracketology, simply guessing at what would take place when brackets were announced. Even the once-staid boardroom boredom of “selection sunday” (+472%) has become a capital ‘E’ Event on the sporting calendar.

With Sunday’s enormous hoops hoopla and the blossom of millions of office pools, we were inundated with college basketball search spikes. Here’s a sampling of the madness…