Happy National Jaychoke Day 2017!

Welcome to another National Jaychoke Day! It was 3.25.17! Happy Jaychoke Day to you, my friend! May all your Jaychoke Days be happy ones!

What Bill Self has done is so absurd that we must ask this question: Is Self betting against himself? In Bill Self's 14 seasons as Kansas basketball head coach, he has failed to play to his team's seed in the NCAA tournament a whopping 10 times, and in five of those 14 seasons, Self's team has failed to make it past the first weekend. Self is 2-7 in Elite Eight games. He has been the #1 seed seven times and made the final four once. And he's been a massive betting favorite in nearly all of those "upsets."

Either Bill Self is the Greatest Choke Artist in the history of world sport by many orders of magnitude, or he is the greatest point-shaver of all time. The evidence of Bill Self betting against his own team is that he keeps on losing NCAA games that he should win. IT HAPPENS ALL THE TIME! Moreover, if you subscribe to this theory, then you would have to give him credit for winning so many regular season games--while not betting against his team.

You see, the potential payday for betting on the other team during the regular season against, for example, TCU, is minimal. Small potatoes. Many fewer bets are placed on a game in February in Fort Worth, Texas. On the other hand, hundreds of millions of dollars are bet on NCAA tournament games legally in Las Vegas. As much as three billion dollars will be bet this year on the tournament. Thus, the chance for a greater haul during March Madness.

It is easier, moreover, to place a large number of big dollar bets on NCAA tournament games. Less suspicious. There is less risk. Self hypothetically bets on, for example, Oregon in this year's tournament, and that bet would be lost in the sea of hundreds of thousands of other bets placed legally and illegally.

Seven number one seeds = one Final Four. How is that possible? On top of that, Self has had five losses as a top four seed prior to the Sweet Sixteen. That, too, is unpossible! We have no "smoking gun" proving this theory--no betting slips--so we asked the Staff at National Jaychoke Day to weigh in with their opinions.

Reginald, Senior Editor, National Jaychoke Day:  "The numbers are the numbers. It is virtually impossible to think that Bill Self could accidentally fail so much. I don't know."

Ferrell, Editor, National Jaychoke Day:  "The theory is seductive. It explains so much! We have seen Bill Self operate in the 'gray area' of NCAA rules all the time. Would he also do something against the rules when it comes to betting? I think it's possible."

Gary, National Jaychoke Day Staff Writer:  "Hanlon's razor is an aphorism expressed in various ways including, 'Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.' When it comes to NCAA Tournament games, Bill Self is simply incompetent. Sure, that makes him the most incompetent in history by far, but somebody had to be the most incompetent in history."

See everybody back in 2018!