With March Madness in full swing, it is safe to say that talk of brackets have triumphed many recent conversations. Facebook statuses are filled with predications and the current status of their brackets, including the good and bad.
Statuses that I have seen include:
“byebye brackets. LETS GET THE MIDWEST TERPS! LETS GO”
“back in college park, but soo upset about the terps loss”
“early birthday brunch at turf valley then watching the terps fight for the sweet sixteen. LET'S GOO MARYLAND!”
“HERE WE GO TERPS! LETS GO MARYLAND”
and the more disappointing post…
so just found out that the clock was not started for approx .7 seconds after michigan st passed in the ball on their final possession...meaning the "game-winning" basket should not have counted, putting maryland in the sweet sixteen...thanks NCAA
For those who aren’t aware, the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship is a single elimination tournament held each spring in the United States. This year’s competition began on Friday, March 19th in various locations such as Syracuse, St. Louise, and Houston. Sixty-four college basketball teams began the tournament, organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The first round includes two days of sixteen games. Once eliminates began, rounds of the titles include “sweet sixteen,” the “elite eight,” and then the “final four.” The tournament was first created in 1939 by the National Association of Basketball Coaches.
Since its inception, the tournament bracket predictions have created an active role for audiences to play in the tournament. Friends, organizations, companies, and maybe even small children have put money down and filled out their brackets in hopes of their favorite teams winning it all and in return taking home all of their brackets earnings. Websites sponsor and calculate the points for each player so people completing against each other can see who put what team in each position and how many points they have as a result.
Anticipation for the Final Four is shown below from a countdown taken from www.cbssports.com
Below shows how people can sign up individually or with groups.
cbssports.com also can bring the tournament to your cell phone through the on demand iPhone App.
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