NCAA Basketball Tournament
One Chance, Win or Go Home!
There are currently 336 Division 1 Men’s College Basketball Teams in the
USA.
Each March 65 either win 1 of the 31 conference championships or are 1 of 34 teams
selected by an expert group to play in the NCAA (National College Athletic
Association) Tournament.
Unlike the NBA in which you have a possible 7 games to prove you are the
better team, in NCAA you get only 1 game. So your team had better be at there best for
every game in the tournament, if not, you lose, you go home.
Each of the 65 teams is placed in a bracket. (see chart on opposite page) Each
bracket consists of 4 groups of 16, 16, 16, and 17. In each bracket the teams are ranked
from 1 (the best) to 16 (the worst). To balance things in each bracket the best team gets
to play the worst team. (1 vs. 16, 2 vs. 15, 3 vs. 14…etc.) However even though the
experts who create this bracket try to make it so that the best teams will win as
expected, often a lower ranked team will beat a higher ranked team. This is called an
upset. For example if a team ranked 10 (worse) loses against a team ranked 7 (better) it
will be an upset.
Each year thousands of people try to correctly guess the outcome of the
entire 65 team tournament. Choosing or picking the winner of each and every game.
Many private bets (wagers) are made as well as betting online and at large casinos.
If you would like to join my group on yahoo sports and try your best to get as
many correct winners as you can all the way to the finals, please do so. The person who
joins and does the best of all the students in _______________ High School will be
given a Pizza Lunch by me sometime in April.
To join you first must go to this website
(http://tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com/men). Then you must click ‘join’ a group. Next
you must click ‘Join Private’. After that you must create a Yahoo ID. Finally you
must enter in the group ID Number # (94060) and password (nmsu).
Notes for teachers:
You may create your own group at this website: ( http://tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com/)
You may print out a complete bracket from this website:
(http://l.yimg.com/img.sports.yahoo.com/r/ncaab/tourneybracket )
Deadline:
The bracket must be filled out online before the end of the day on March 15. (midnight)