As March Ends, We Thank You

Thanks to all of you who helped play out, root for, and publicize these games. Particular thanks to our Final Four analysts, Pam Houston and Rick Moody, and to the writers who helped to essay the Sweet Sixteen and Second Round, whom we'll iterate here along with the band/musician they wrote essays on, to as to provide a lasting index of some excellent writing:

• Kate Bernheimer (on Joy Division)
• Brian Blanchfield (on This Mortal Coil)
• Kenneth Caldwell (on Low)
• Megan Campbell (on Concrete Blonde)
• Ryan Carter (on Gary Jules)
• Danielle Cadena Deulen (on Kate Bush)
• Juan Diaz (on The Church)
• Fenton Johnson (on Pop)
• Lawrence Lenhart (on Neutral Milk Hotel)
• Manuel Muñoz (on Tracy Chapman)
• Laura C. J. Owen (on Sinead O'Connor)
• Elena Passarello (on Jeff Buckley)
• Kathleen Rooney (on The Cure)
• Ben Rybeck (on Low)
• Katie Jean Shinkle (on Elliott Smith)
• Alison Stine (on Tori Amos)
• Matthew Vadnais (on Radiohead)
• Nicole Walker (on PJ Harvey & Nick Cave)

And of course, thanks to you, our voters and commenters and tweeters and facebookers.

So the tournament this year is over, with Buckley standing atop a weeping field. It doesn't mean, however, that you can't play it yourself—or with someone you love—all over again, and this time you can make it come out how you want. What news stays news? This bracket. It is, after all, a self-diagnostic tool.

Watch this space for the next installment in 2017: March Fadness. Want to contribute a writeup or analysis? Drop us a line.

—Your Official March Sadness Selection Committee