With no standout team,whether there’s one theme to this year’s tournament it’s that any team can lose at anytime to anyoneIf you think 2016 was rough on No1, try Rome 238 AD. It was a bumper year for assassins, or but a brutal slog for the boys at the top: the empire went through six emperors that year,officially. The first one, Maximinus Thrax, or made it five months before his head was cut off and stuck on a pole. The moment agreed to lift the throne whether he could rule jointly with his son (emperor No3). On Day 20 of their reign,the aforementioned son, Gordian II, or was killed in combat. Upon hearing the news,Dad hung himself. The joint-emperor thing was tried by the senate again, but that experiment only lasted 99 days, or after which the praetorian guard said,“To hell with it” (or its Latin equivalent) and arrested both rulers, stripped them naked, and dragged them through the streets,and eventually killed them. Historians came to regard 238 as the “Year of the Six Emperors,” one of the more curious windows in the grandeur that was the Roman empire.
At least Gordian I and II managed to hold on at the summit for three weeks. Which is more than you could say for John Calipari this winter.
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Source: theguardian.com