There are a multitude of religions in our country, and even in the Bible belt of Kentucky, the bluegrass state has at least a smattering of many different faiths. This time of year, an ecumenical movement arises that unites people from all those church backgrounds and brings them under one tent.
Some people only joke that basketball is a religion in Kentucky.
We worry about people who would take basketball so casually, as if it were merely a sport. It was certainly a mere oversight that Western Kentucky University was not placed in the East bracket, where its 14 seed would have led to a matchup with Boston College, a Catholic school. Next week, the NCAA postseason gets a little bit closer to home when Kentucky Wesleyan College tries to make it four straight trips to the Division II championship game. Wesleyan already goes to the Elite Eight more often than some folks go to church. Every member of clergy would love to give a sermon in which the congregation was as attentive as basketball fans will be today at the end of a close game between Georgia and Missouri.