It may be hard to believe, but the Madness is over and it’s only the first week of March.

Don’t worry college basketball fans and gamblers alike. ‘The World’s Largest Office Pool’ will still begin March 20. But the real thrilling and enticing field of 64 tournament ended Sunday at the La Costa Resort and Spa in California.

I’m referring to the Accenture Match Play Championship, and, yes, it is golf.

Viewers were treated to one of the most entertaining tournaments of any sport last week. The match play tournament takes the top 64 golfers and places them in four brackets (one vs. 16, two vs. 15, etc.) and the golfer with the lowest stroke total on each hole wins that hole. Whoever wins 10 holes or the most after a round of 18 advances.

This can lead to some major upsets and very exciting golf.

No. 1 seeds Ernie Els and Retief Goosen could not survive the first day, and Spain’s Sergio Garcia was bounced on the first day by defending champion Kevin Sutherland. In the semifinals, Tiger Woods needed 19 holes to defeat Australian Adam Scott in what was the match of the tournament at the time. Unlike the NCAA Tournament, every match, regardless of seeding, could go either way.

In a few years, the Accenture Match Play Championship will become the major tournament in March.

Face it, college basketball is not viewable anymore, and many people only pay attention to fill out their brackets and try to win a few bucks.

No longer are the top picks in the NBA Draft coming from the college game. Gone are the recognizable faces of guys who spend four years in college like Christian Laettner, Wally Szczerbiak and Tim Duncan. Instead the top selections are foreigners or high school kids like Yao Ming and Kwame Brown.

June will mark the third consecutive year the top pick did not even attend college. High school phenom LeBron James will go first overall, and it appears 17-year-old Yugoslavian Darko Milicic will be second.

James is the most talked about non-professional athlete, and he won’t be competing in the tournament and never will.

The ‘World’s Largest Office Pool’ will have little star power besides the Las Vegas odds. Who do fans have to watch?

Carmelo Anthony of Syracuse or Luke Walton of Arizona may be good players, but by no means are they showstoppers.

So enter the Professional Golf Association and the Accenture Match Play Championship which featured 64 of the top 65 golfers in the world.

The 36-hole final between Woods and David Toms, who was still suffering the effect of a food poisoning bout earlier in the week, was the grittiest performance one of the sporting year to date.

With Woods leading Toms by five holes after 19, Toms nearly pulled off a comeback for the ages against the world’s top golfer.

Toms’ won two consecutive holes (26 and 27) to cut Woods’ lead down to two with nine holes to play. After an errant tee shot by Woods on the 29th hole, Toms took advantage of Tiger’s mishap and won the hole with a birdie. Woods won the 31st hole to go up by two with only five holes to play and in the process put the pressure on Toms.

But the Louisian native battled back and cut the lead to one when he won the 33rd hole after Woods’ birdie putt fell five feet short of the cup. Toms eventually succumbed to Woods on the 35th hole after Toms bogied the hole.

The NCAA Tournament will need nail-bitter after nail-bitter to equal the intensity of the golf tournament played last week.

After getting past the wagering aspect of ‘The World’s Largest Office Pool,’ the tournament doesn’t compare to excitement of the Accenture Match Play Championship and you can bet on that.