It’s that time of the year again. The NCAA basketball playoffs begin! For those who play basketball, like me, the NCAA playoffs are one of the most hyped-up professional sporting events of the year, behind only the NBA playoffs. For those who are a little confused right now about what is going on, let me give you a quick run-down. The NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament is a competition of the top 68 college basketball teams in the USA. This games are extremely competitive and often are taken by the schools as a championship of great honour, and these games are mostly played in March, thus the name “March Madness” was born.
March Madness gains a lot of media attention and coverage across the USA and also internationally. In fact, it’s such a big deal that even Barack Obama released his predictions for the winners of this year’s NCAA tournament:
In the spirit of good sportsmanship & good citizenship, here are @barackobama‘s picks for #MarchMadness 2017: https://t.co/wRuCz6LBvc pic.twitter.com/UrZkpbkZHi
— The Obama Foundation (@ObamaFoundation) March 15, 2017
The NCAA tournament is also a great reason to get together with you friends and hang out. Sometimes you can run out of ideas of what to do with friends, and this is a perfect idea to grab some popcorn and pop, head over to a friend’s house, and have a fun time watching the game!
So who’s going to win? Well, according to statistical analysis experts, Villanova was favoured to win:
However, despite all the predictions by the statistics experts, Villanova was eliminated from the first round by the N0.8 Wisconsin!
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Seeing the volatility of the entire playoffs, I’m sticking with my belief that Kentucky will be the real winners. GO KENTUCKY #1!!! Remember, three weeks from now, that you heard it here first. Now go out there and watch the Madness unfold on the court!
Further Reading/Watching:
FiveThirtyEight’s comprehensive analysis: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2017-march-madness-predictions/
Highlights from March Madness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV7vq4ABXpA
Fill out your own bracket!: http://www.ncaa.com/interactive-bracket/basketball-men/d1
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