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We are now one week into the basketball frenzy known as “March Madness.” Though the phrase is now inseparable from the NCAA Tournament, it was first coined in 1939 by an Illinois high school basketball official to describe the enthusiasm surrounding that state’s championship games each spring. Four decades later, when a CBS sportscaster used it to capture the chaos and drama of early-round upsets in the national tournament, the name stuck. Americans may admire dominance, but