That sound you here in the background is everyone around you filling out their NCAA tournament brackets.
And while fans around here are gearing up for Michigan State basketball against UCLA on Thursday night, and many others are flipping a coin for a pick between Cal-Santa Barbara and Creighton.
But before you hit send on your predictions — only to curse them a few days from now — let's see what perhaps the most famous basketball fan in the world has to say about March Madness.
The former Bracketologist-in-Chief, President Barack Obama, would make his picks known on ESPN in segments taped from the White House when he lived there.