Charlotte Real Estate Agent Brian Belcher

It's the big day tomorrow. Thousands of office pools will be circulated in Charlotte NC offices on Monday after the brackets are announced for the NCAA tournament tomorrow.

The people who run college basketball are probably hard at work deciding who goes where based on a bunch of information that is supposed to tell us how good each team is.

Most of the teams are probably already set in their place. But there are still some teams that are on the bubble whose performance in their conference tournaments will affect how they are placed.

Teams are admitted to the NCAA tournament if they win their conference tournament, but there are some good teams that could possibly win the tournament that did not win their tournaments that will get in at-large. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of Connecticut are both at the top of the list and have been ranked at number one by the coaches and news media all season. But neither won its tournament. They will still have the one of the highest seeds and the easiest road to the final four.

The final four is when all the rules get thrown out the window. You can resonably predict who is going to win where, by looking at the seedings, although there are alway upsets. In fact, the rule is, there are always upsets. It is just more dramatic in the final four because the stakes are so high for each of the teams.

The charlotte public library is holding an event for people to come get their myspace photos done. There's nothing worse than having your high school yearbook photo as your myspace photo.

I'm sure they'll have someone come up with something that is more intersesting than just a well lit shot.

The event is at Imaginon: The Joe and Jean Martin Center, which is downtown and frequently has events for kids.

It is one of the events I found on the city's website. It may seem like a lost cause to look on the city's websites for cool things to do, but I found some really good ones. It seems that someone keeps the website up to date in Charlotte NC.

The library is a great source of not only information, but a free resource for internet access if you decide that a home connection is too expensive for you. There are tons of free events, if you are into being intellectual. There really isn't much there for thrill seekers. Many of the branch libraries have been renovated to make them more comfortable and inviting.

There is a relatively new regional library in South Charlotte that serves the town of Matthews.

The Atlantic Coast Conference, one of the best college basketball conferences, is close, along with just about every other basketball conference, to finishing the end of its post season tournament. In many cases around the country, the outcome of the tournament will affect how the teams are seeded for the NCAA tournament, the big end of season tournament that people like to call March Madness.

The ACC tournament is a big deal in North Carolina because there are four universities from NC in the tournament. Many of those graduates find their way back to Charlotte NC.

This year finds Duke and Florida State in the Finals of the ACC tournament. FSU knocked off the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill today to make it there. Chapel Hill is currently ranked number one in the nation going into the NCAA tournament. They have been without their starting point guard for the tournament because of an injury. Ty Lawson should be ready for the NCAA tournament though.

Duke is three hours away from Charlotte on Interstate 85 in Durham.

If you have the money, now is the time to invest in a sweet 40 inch hdtv so you can watch this tournament. It is a whole month of exciting basketball games.

Everyone better figure out what shade of green they are going to be wearing next week. The Charlotte North Carolina St. Patrick's day parade will be held on March 14. It starts at 10 am, which is a really early start, if you ask me. The parade will be full of bands and drill teams and other cool people. It will also feature the superintendant of schools as the Grand Marshall, which is kind of a downer. When I think of St. Patrick, I really don't want to be thinking about education. But I'm sure he's swell guy and will marshall the parade well.

The parade runs in uptown Charlotte, like most of the seasonal parades do. It is a fun way to go into the city and bring the kids to see who is parading. It's not a huge parade, and Charlotte isn't a huge city, so parking and getting to the parade probably isn't going to be a problem as it might be somewhere else. Although uptown Charlotte Real Estate is desireable, most people in Charlotte live outside of uptown, so the streets won't be clogged with people who just got up. They'll be clogged with people who want to be there.

Anoop Desai is a popular contestant on American Idol, at least around North Carolina. He is from Chapel Hill, which is a sacred place in many Charlotttean's hearts to begin with. He is the second big star to come out of American Idol. Clay Aiken was also from North Carolina, if any of you remember. He was a big deal.

Even though Clay lost, he went on to become a top selling artist and is still tabloid fodder today. I'm no expert, but I think at the point Anoop is right now, he will have some type of ongoing recording contract with American Idol.

Winning American Idol is no guarantee of success. Some winners have gone on to sell poorly and fade away just like all kinds of talented people in the music business.

But the people who don't win on American Idol are usually under contract with the American Idol people. They go around on musical tours as a group to perform in arenas for fans.

After their contract runs out, they are free to do whatever they want. Some have joined theater troupes. One that is currently touring the country is "Ain't Misbehavin'" with Reuben Studdard, from the second season.

Lots of those shows show up in Charlotte NC at one point or another.