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== Erroneous Origin of Term "March Madness" ==

This article's information about the origin of the term "March madness" is erroneous. It was originally used beginning in 1931, in reference to Indiana high school basketball. This was discovered by the distinguished etymologist Barry Popik and [https://barrypopik.com/blog/march_madness is detailed at his barrypopik.com website.]  <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/128.36.7.85|128.36.7.85]] ([[User talk:128.36.7.85#top|talk]]) 23:05, 5 February 2022 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

:[[User:128.36.7.85|@128.36.7.85]] At best that would be only a minor modification to the history of the term. Whatever use was made of "March Madness" in Indiana in the early 1930's obviously wasn't enough to prevent its use in Illinois starting in the late 1930's; my guess was it had faded away in Indiana before 1939. OTOH, Illinois' prior use of "March Madness" is acknowledged in the numerous court cases involving conflicting uses of the term; even though IHSA gave its share of the trademark registration to the NCAA years ago, it still controls the right to use "March Madness" for high school basketball tournaments apparently under license from the NCAA. [[User:RBBrittain|RBBrittain]] ([[User talk:RBBrittain|talk]]) 02:27, 16 March 2022 (UTC)