Both schools' bands continued to play as the opposing team lined up on offense, despite repeated warnings from officials and—gasp—the public address announcer. Conference rules prohibit the bands from playing after a team breaks from the huddle, but who are they to cut "When The Saints Go Marching In" off in the middle of the song?

The schools received only a reprimand, but a second violation would ban the band for a game, and a third would suspend them for the rest of the season. Think that's not a strong deterrent for a fairly effective distraction? I've been to a Grambling game. Without the band, there's really no reason to go.

2 College Bands On Notice For Music At Wrong Times [AP]

If you're like us, your NCAA pool bracket already resembles an acre of burning tires, and it's only Thursday. So why not head over to a version of March Madness you actually have a chance to win? At Band Madness, there's a 512-team field (the bracket is pretty impressive, actually; although we wonder what Jim Cooke would have done with it), and they're still playing the first round; Radiohead just won a laugher over Staind.

A whole bunch of matchups were decided on the last day of voting, but none was closer than Tool's victory over Lou Reed by only 16 votes in a matchup where 2558 total votes were cast. Jethro Tull came from behind to beat Muse by only 21 votes, blink-182 held off Supertramp by 36 votes, and a constantly-changing matchup between My Chemical Romance and Ween ended with My Chemical Romance pulling away by 90.

Damn Supertramp never could play defense. As far as upcoming games go, we are intrigued by this afternoon's tussle between Built to Spill and the Scissor Sisters. Hmm, we wonder who Majerus picked?

Bracket A Wrapup [Band Madness]

(For the record, we are APPALLED that The Beta Band is losing to Phil Collins.)

UW-Madison is not releasing details on what happened during the bus trip to the Sept. 23 game against the University of Michigan. ... [Chancellor John] Wiley warned in the letter he would consider suspending activities and travel of the band or replacing its leadership if there were more reports of "gratuitous vulgarity, sexualized banter or joking, hazing, or other forms of demeaning conduct."

So, apparently, something so wretched and horrible and degrading and AWESOME happened on the Wisconsin band bus a few weeks ago that no one can even talk about it, though if it happens again, there's gonna be hell to pay. We've been researching around to see if we can get a sense of what happened, but, so far, no dice. If anybody has any info, let us know or, in lieu of that, please feel free to post your most grotesque, offensive and unsubstantiated theories in the comments. Fred Smoot had to have been involved somehow, right?

UW Band Must Face The Music [Madison State Journal]

(UPDATE: So the details have come out. They include:

Bah! That's it?!