NCAA Vault Lets You Relive a Decade of March Madness

March is one of our favorite times of the year, because it's when the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament takes place. Offices are empty and sports bars are full, as much of the nation's workforce gathers to watch the world's greatest sporting event -- March Madness (take that, World Cup).

If you're not familiar with this 64-team tournament, we've found the perfect Web site to teach you all about bracket busters, Cinderella teams and tournament seeds. The NCAA Vault is a hoops fan's dream. According to Mashable, the site features streaming video of entire games, awesome dunks, and other highlights from the last decade of the tournament's round of 16, known as the "Sweet 16." The lack of embeddable videos is a huge drawback, but the site at least provides you with a direct link to the content you're watching.

On the downside, the quality isn't that great (there's no high definition footage), and it's hard to justify a lack of fullscreen video in 2010 -- especially when some are over an hour long. On the interface side, the site is easy to navigate, allowing you to drill through the past decade by searching for teams, years and players. A sidebar lets you cycle through categories like "great blocks" and "great finishes," a series of videos just begging to be embedded across the Web. Letting users create mixes of the greatest 'Sweet 16' blocks on their own sites is a no-brainer.

Being lifelong Alabama Crimson Tide fans, we were tempted [Ed. Note: Thank goodness you didn't. Ahem.] to ditch work and relive the team's unforgettable run back in 2004 to the Elite 8. We relented, for now. Just don't expect us to do the same when the real "Big Dance" starts in a couple weeks. [From: Mashable and NCAA Vault]

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