Sports Blog #8

March Madness is a tournament is college basketball that has Seven different rounds.  The first round consists of all the teams within the tournament to compete and the winner moves on to the next round.  This tournament is for both men’s and women’s basketball at the division 1 level.  To be allowed into this tournament these teams either must win their divisional conference or be chosen by the NCAA basketball selection committee.  There is a total of 64 teams for the women’s and 68 teams for the men.  This tournament is done in March (Hence the title March Madness).  These teams then go on to compete against each other trying to move on.  This tournament has to do with seeding which means the Selection committee sets games up according to division 1 basketball teams so that the better teams don’t automatically get to face off a team that is a lot worse than them.  The selection committee puts teams that have equal records against each other matching the games up as fair as possible until this tournament reaches the final eight teams.  Once this happens than the teams keep competing until there are 4 teams, then the final two teams which the final game is always held somewhere in a nice stadium other than each other’s teams home courts.  The winner of this tournament than gets a huge trophy and is named the best basketball college team for that year.  The winning team also gets a banner put up in there home stadium letting the fans know what year they won there championship and to be able to look back on all the championships each team has won depending on what college basketball fan you are. 

https://www.britannica.com/sports/March-Madness