Verbatim: Who’s going to win March Madness?
March 29, 2019
Come March each year, sports fans across the nation are swept up in basketball madness. As 68 teams compete to become the men’s NCAA Division I college basketball national champion, fans on the sidelines busy themselves with brackets and speculation.
So who’s going to be the 2018-19 March Madness champion? Palo Alto High School students weigh in.
![Economics teacher Eric Bloom encourages students to return their textbooks for the end of the year. According to Bloom, students might have recognized his unique fashion choices including vibrant shoes and belt buckles. Bloom said his attire choices actually linked to his lessons. "I have a lot of shoes, I have a lot of belt buckles and wear them purpose because of its educational value," Bloom said. "Especially in the earlier part of my career when we would talk about product differentiation, I had an assignment where students go home and count how many different kinds of shoes [they have]."](https://palyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Untitled-6-1-300x214.jpg)