We're five friends who have known each other just about all of our lives. We grew up outside New Haven, Connecticut in the town of Hamden. A few of us grew up in the same neighborhood and went to school together. We played Little League baseball and JCC basketball together, and formed this life-long bond during high school and the B'nai Brith Youth Organization (BBYO).

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We drifted a bit in college, but as we stepped into adulthood and moved to different parts of the country, we felt the need to get together on a regular basis. In 2000 (or sometime around then), Ed was living in Los Angeles and the rest of the boys were still in the Northeast, so we decided to meet in Las Vegas for the second weekend of the NCAA men's basketball tournament.  That started a tradition that has seen annual knock-down, drag-out basketball games of "21" and 2-on-2, lots of great food and drink, and our fair share of diabolical blackjack dealers, all scheduled around yelling and screaming in support/euphoria/frustration/amazement for UConn and whichever teams we have money on during the second weekend of the world's greatest annual sporting event.

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Legalized sports betting and betting apps like DraftKings and FanDuel has allowed us to branch out beyond Las Vegas and explore US cities from Philly to Memphis to New Orleans, and while we’ll always have a love/hate relationship with Sin City, we make a point of exploring all our options - as long as they meet our very stringent requirements. 

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Twenty-five years on, we've done everything we can to uphold the tradition every March. This website celebrates those trips and a friendship like no other.