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March Madness 2025

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Each March, the NCAA holds a tournament to determine which division 1 program will hold the title of national champion for both men’s and women’s collegiate basketball. This phenomenon is called March Madness. The name stems from the unpredictable nature of a 68-team single elimination bracket in which any team has a chance to win it all.

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The NCAA selection committee ranks who they believe to be the top 68 teams and splits them into four regions with the regional champions playing each other in what is known as the Final Four. Most of the time, there are one or two major Cinderella stories with low ranked teams making it to the later rounds of the tournament. However, this year both the men’s and women’s brackets have been extremely uneventful. In the men’s bracket the four highest ranked teams have advanced to the Final Four and the women’s bracket would have seen the same fate if it weren’t for #2 seed UCONN beating #1 seed USC. USC was hindered by the recent loss of one of their star players, JuJu Watkins, to a torn ACL earlier in the season. 

I filled out a bracket of my own and lost my chances of a perfect bracket on the first day of the tournament. On the bright side, Houston, the team I picked to win it all in the men’s bracket, is still alive as of now. I am going to stick with them as my pick to win the men’s bracket. However, before they make it to the championship they will have to go through Cooper Flagg, one of the top prospects in the upcoming NBA draft, and the rest of the Duke Blue Devils. On the other side of the bracket Auburn out of the South and Florida out of the West will be playing for the other spot in the championship. The women’s bracket features Texas versus South Carolina and UCONN versus UCLA. I think that Paige Bueckers will help lead UCONN to win the national championship. Sports fans can only hope that next March will have more madness than this one did.

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With the month being March, sports watchers have something new to watch which will keep them interested. It’s March Madness! March Madness is the NCAA Division One College Basketball tournament where 64 teams compete for the right to call themselves the Champs. 

First of all, there are four regions in the NCAA tournament: West, East, South, Midwest. Each region has its own one seed, two seed, all the way up to the 16th seed. Until the Final Four, each region’s teams only compete with each other. 

There are six rounds in March Madness, but not all teams are fortunate to make all of them. In fact, only two of the 64 teams are able to compete in all the rounds. To qualify for the tournament in March, teams are required to have a great regular season or win the conference championship. First comes the round of 64, where there are 32 different games total. The one seed in each region matches up with the 16 seed, the two seed with the 15 seed, up to the eighth seed versus the ninth seed matchup. Then, the winners of those games compete in the round of 32, which consists of 16 games. Next is the Sweet Sixteen, with eight games. The winners of the Sweet Sixteen matchups compete in the Elite Eight, which is also a regional final for each of the four regions. The winners of the regions go on to compete in the Final Four, where the region champions play against each other. The sixth round is the NCAA Championship Game, where the last two teams battle for the rights to cut down the nets and hold up the trophy! 

Performing highly in this college basketball tournament can also raise the stocks of players trying to make it to the NBA. Some top players to watch in the rest of March Madness include Chet Holmgren (Gonzaga), Drew Timme (Gonzaga), Jabari Smith Jr (Auburn), Paolo Banchero (Duke), Mark Williams (Duke), Jaden Ivey (Purdue), and Ochai Agbaji (Kansas).  

Some top teams to watch in March Madness include UCLA, Arizona, Duke, Gonzaga, Purdue, Auburn, Houston, Kansas, Villanova, Wisconsin, and Texas Tech.

I always enjoy watching top teams battle it out during March Madness. Whether it’s a 15 point comeback by an underrated team or a 30 point performance by a star player, March Madness never disappoints! 

-Mert A.