Madness

Tom Lake: TAMPA — Today the doormen at the Hyatt Regency will wear Clemson orange. The waitresses at Hooters in Channelside will pour rivers of cold domestic beer. And early this evening, on an upper level of the St. Pete Times Forum, a retired teacher from upstate New York will appear wearing nothing on his upper body but a giant green "S."

The "S" stands for Siena, as in Siena College, a Franciscan school in Loudonville, N.Y., whose men's basketball team won the right to play in the NCAA tournament that is played here today. The teacher is Bob Hermann, 59, who blames peer pressure for his impending shirtlessness.