Let’s be honest: unless you’re Rachel LaBruyere or hail from Richmond, the men’s NCAA Tournament has lost a bit of its luster for D.C. homers. Georgetown and George Mason failed to advance past the tournament’s first weekend, and the tournament itself has packed up from the Verizon Center, taking it’s insane finishes and Kemba Walker’s acrobatics along with it. But though local interest in the men’s tournament is waning, the women’s competition actually has some regional juice, featuring a matchup between long-dormant rivals Georgetown and Maryland.

You’ll forgive us for not congratulating the winner of the 2009 DCist Reader-Staff NCAA Bracketfest contest in a more timely manner, but we’ve been a little busy licking our wounds. There’s just no way to spin the fact that our readers delivered an embarrassing rout of the DCist staff in the standings: the best showing on our end was by Weekend Editor Kriston Capps, who came in a meager 29th overall. So, it’s with…

Not burgers. Not books. Frakkin’ en-see-double-A basketball. It’s March Madness, friends, and that means it’s final exam time in bracketology. Once again, the writers at DCist would like to invite the readers of DCist to join in for some competitive bracketeering, with the biggest prize of all — citywide bragging rights (plus a little bonus surprise) — at stake. Choose a methodology and dial in your selections. Take the one-seeds all the way to…

Memphis had it all figured out. But after downing the powerful UCLA Bruins and storming ahead of the Kansas Jayhawks to an eight point lead with two minutes to go, the Tigers blew it. College basketball pregame show enthusiasts and overanalyzers everywhere were rewarded for heeding their experts’ warnings: Memphis cannot shoot free throws. It took a miracle three by Mario Chalmers and the lack of a Memphis inside presence (Memphis’ Joey Dorsey fouled out…

On Capitol Hill, “March Madness” might refer to any number of psychoses. Surely a lot of college basketball fans took heart/umbrage in March 2006 when Duke (Cunningham) was sentenced to prison over charges of bribery, mail fraud, wire fraud, and tax evasion. Now Roll Call is rendering NCAA brackets in a language that sports-averse D.C. wonks will understand. The newspaper’s Final Four, as represented by the Representatives associated with the top-seed schools that survived sports’…