12 Bracket Comments That Work For Any Iowan In A Basketball Conversation This Month

Here's how to sound like you care about basketball this time of the year.

Personally, I'm more of a gridiron girl myself and I don't keep up with basketball. But what seems like the rest of the planet does, especially in March, when everyone is filling out brackets.

Maybe your office has a bracket pool going. Maybe you and your friends do. Maybe you filled one out because it's what the cool kids do in March.

At some point, somewhere in the next few days, even a casual small-talk conversation can lend itself to the NCAA's March Madness and how adept you are at picking out a bracket.

Normally, I'd change the subject but sometimes it's just easier to go with the topic. But now, with most of the championship games being in about a week, sports fanatics have their brackets picked.

Fear not, non-basketball fans. If you didn't pick a bracket, you can make it sound like you did when chatting with that weird neighbor in the parking lot. Scroll down to see some key phrases you can throw in to sound like you care about brackets.

(Also, as long as we're on the subject, fun fact about March: it's one of the most popular months for men to get vasectomies. It's because of so much basketball on during the playoffs that allows them to sit on the couch for a long time and recover.)