It’s official: March Madness is well under way.

Black and blue pens scribbled furiously across ESPN and Yahoo! brackets as bracketologists from all corners of the country weighed in on the pros and cons of their respective favorites. Bets were sealed with handshakes and men and women settled onto the couch to watch round one of the tournament.

Everyone was confident in their Final Four selections. No one questioned their decision about who would win it all. Then, some moron came up with the idea of filling out multiple brackets. The better the chance to win right?

This morning on ESPN’s Mike and Mike in the Morning talk show, the topic of bracket integrity was introduced. The question: Does one lose their integrity by filling out multiple brackets?

On the show, Mike Golic proudly boasted that he has 12 teams in over 15 different brackets winning the tournament. Maybe, just maybe, one or two brackets would be acceptable, but 15? Either one too many hits in the head caused Golic to be extremely indecisive, or he is seriously lacking any sort of knowledge in the realm of college basketball.

Maybe he’s better off picking teams in the NFL.

This raised a huge argument between the two men in regards to one’s integrity when it comes to filling out your bracket. Mike Greenberg argued that Golic was selfish for filling out numerous champions. Case in point, Golic shot back with “I just want to win the money.”

Apparently you’re nearly guaranteed a win if you cheat to get to the top.

Now, you would think for someone who hosts a sports radio show, they would be confident enough in their ability to identify the winning team. All the other analysts and announcers are more than capable of selecting one team. Why not Golic? Talk about a man with no integrity.

So how does this play into the real world? There’s always one person in the group who feels they are worthy enough to post multiple brackets on the Wall of Fame. News flash for these people: you aren’t. Think of how out of control contests would get it people were allowed to submit multiple brackets to a Facebook pool?

For those people who think they need more than one bracket to declare total domination, think again. If you think UNC is going to pull off the win of the century over Pittsburgh, then just stick with that on all your brackets.

After all, scientists don’t go filing multiple inquiries about experiments. If you’re going to call yourself a bracketologist and consider yourself an expert in bracketology, then don’t be the loner in your circle of friends who can’t make a decision about the winning team.

– Nicole Jacobsen

Editor in Chief