WHAT IS ‘MARCH MADNESS’?

What is it about men’s college basketball? Especially the NIT and the NCAA tournaments.

We spend hours agonizing over what schools to pick, do we go for the long shot or pick the favorites.

Some fans will use the school mascots as the deciding factor.
What school’s mascot will win over the other school’s mascots?
There are still others that will simply flip a coin, but no matter how it gets done, it seems that
everyone had their bracket.

Use to link to set up your bracket or to follow who’s in and who’s out

http://www.ncaa.com/interactive-bracket/basketball-men/d1

It starts with smaller tournaments all over the United States, each division only able to send it best college teams to the tournament.

It all comes down to only 68 teams competing over a matter of just a few weeks starting in March, hence the term ‘March Madness’ and it doesn’t end until there is just one team left standing.

The winning college teams enter the NCAA tournament; the college teams that are the runners up enter the NIT tournament as their consolation prize.

But it’s the NCAA tournament that will have people glued to their TV, radios and their computers.

Well over 3 million people signed on to ESPN’s March Madness last year to filled out their brackets, with many more just doing it for fun and not using ESPN at all.

If you are not a basketball fan it would hard for you to imagine what all the fuss is about.

http://www.ncaa.com/

I joined in on the fun last year and picked most of the favorites to win and before the end of the tournament even got close, most of my bracket was a complete bust.

However, while it lasted I was glued to the TV, watching and holding my breath as my teams either won or lost, (mostly lost) and enjoying every minute of it.

It wasn’t always like this, long before the idea of March Madness, there was still college basketball.

I can remember watching college basketball long before I had ever heard of bracketing.

However I did a ‘google’ search to find out that the use of brackets go all the way back to 1943.

But didn’t catch on until the mid 1982 when CBS actually showed the use of the bracket on TV. However, I personally think the whole bracket obsession really began with ‘social media’ .

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Anyone that owns a cell phone, Pad, or computer can keep track of all the basketball teams, the scores and get immediate updates regarding the status of their personal bracket.

That in itself opened up the game of college basketball to everyone and anyone.

All I know is that I am a UCLA Fan, but I have also been known to root for USC, Stanford, Cal, and a few other California College team, but my heart still belongs to the Bruins.

There was hope this year for UCLA and several other CA college teams to immerse from their local tournaments and onto being one of the 64 teams to go to play in the March Madness tournament.

We all know that Baseball is still listed as ‘The Great American Past Time’.

But with the invention of the brackets, and social media, college basketball might be the new great American past time at least during March Madness.

There has been quite a bit of news regarding the loss of production in the work force do to this madness for college basketball.

Some employers have tried to embraced it and use it as a means to improve moral in the workplace, others just see it as a waste of time, their time and their time is money.

http://business.time.com/2013/03/19/march-madness-will-cost-businesses-134-million-why-arent-employers-concerned/

I see no end to this phenomenon known as ‘march madness, as long as everyone loves a winner and these games are set at such a fast pace, what’s not to love. TV sponsors know this and have adjusted the showing of ‘March Madness’ to guarantee a large viewing audience. No longer does March Madness actually end in March but closer to mid-April, ensuring the games are mostly played over weekends thus a larger audience. There are now 68 teams that will start the ‘Madness’ on March 17.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_NCAA_Men%27s_Division_I_Basketball_Tournament

Last year I had to toss out my bracket before even getting to the ‘Final Four’ I am hopeful that this year
I will actually have a enough teams left to make it all the way to at least the ‘final four’ .

But no matter how bad or how good I do, it is still so much fun to at least try my luck and there is always ‘next year’.

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