College hoops, St. Pat’s converge for one heck of a Thursday Let’s get a few things straight before exploring just how amazing this Thursday will be.

Thursday is the first full day of the NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament. Yes, the field expanded to 68, and yes, those four games on Tuesday and Wednesday were a big deal to the teams involved. But no, four games in two days does not a tournament make. When 64 teams battle it out in single-elimination format over two-jammed pack days, that is a tournament.