A mid-March Thursday in this part of the world means the start of the ACC and SEC basketball tournaments – those ghastly, unenjoyable events. Four days of competitive hoops with rivalries, upsets, outrageous individual performances, and triumph. Awful, awful stuff.

Georgia opens tonight against Arkansas (9:45-ish – you know how these tournaments get). The Hogs were one of the few SEC teams to beat Georgia in Athens this year, and their comeback win hopefully still chafes the Dawgs. Georgia is again a long shot to win the tournament (200-1? Wow.), so we’ll take it game by game and hope for at least a surprise or two. Meanwhile, we can always enjoy this: