I'm not convinced there are an unusually high number of expressions. If there are, you'll have to come up with more and better examples. Four is not a huge number, and two of these are readily explained:
"Ides of March" is simply alludes to the date of the assassination of Julius Caesar, popularized by Shakespeare.
"March Madness" is simply an alliterative term derived from the timing of a particular sporting event (not unlike "Mr. October" for a baseball player who excels during the playoffs, or the recently-popularized expression, "You can't script October.").
I suppose the fact that March is a monosyllabic month may make it more readily apt to be incorporated into short expressions, much like May is:
April showers bring May flowers
It's just a spring clean for the May queen
The Maypole dance on May day
murmur'd that their May was passing
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