basketball fan, and fondly remember the days of filling out a bracket before I even knew how to pronounce some of the schools’ names. Growing up in Utah, I remember watching Keith Van Horn carry Utah to a championship game; I jumped on the band wagons of Duke in ’01 and Syracuse in ’03 to win bracket pools among my friends and slowly college basketball seeped into my blood. It wasn’t until last season that I had my ultimate March Moment.

As a student at Utah State University, we survived the adjustment from the Big West to the WAC only to surfer heartbreaks in the conference tournament year after year. Last season though, things were different. It was clear the Aggies were head-and-shoulders above the rest of the conference.tobacco-buying age from 18 to 21.

Cigarettes for sale. Gene J. Puskar | AP 2015

The Minneapolis plan has been met with opposition from the retail sector. Convenience store owners say they're already getting hit by new sick time laws and the new minimum wage increase put in place by the city of Minneapolis starting in January.

"Tobacco is a declining category for us, and to be clear, I'm not a tobacco apologist or sympathetic toward that issue whatsoever," Lonnie McQuirter, a partner at the 36 Lyn Refuel station, a convenience store and gas station in south Minneapolis, told MPR News earlier this year.

But he said stores like his are already doing a good job of enforcing the current 18-year-old age limit for buying tobacco.

The Minneapolis proposal also has been criticized