Madness Parenthesis March 2010

With the biggest basketball event of the year starting very soon, it will help to be prepared for the best basketball tournament of the year. The biggest event in the NCAA is not the bowl games, but what is known as March Madness. March Madness begins in mid-March and ends the first week of April when a national champion is declared. The tournament is structured for 65 teams to play, but the last seeded team from all four conferences has to play for the 64th seed. When that game is decided, the tournament begins on a Thursday, and games are held every day during the first four days.

After the first two rounds, the remaining teams will play in the Sweet 16 followed by the Elite 8, Final 4 and then the national championship to be played in Indianapolis, Indiana on April 5. Last year’s national champion was the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Tarheels. They will be looking to repeat, but since they have lost most of their talent and are currently unranked, the chances of this coming to fruition are very slim.

For the 2010 tournament, it is highly recommended to connect to and download March Madness brackets from quality online sports websites that offer quality sports information such as up-to-date matchups, scores, up-to-date brackets, injury reports and other misc. information that will be very useful while the playoffs last.

Once you have downloaded and printed your bracket, it is highly recommended that you enter a group of tournaments, either with co-workers or friends, and everyone can put in a few dollars in the hope that the teams they chose win more than the following. take home a nice day’s pay for a little work. Since madness is so mad, you’ll find that US productivity drops 3% because people watch games instead of working, and with all the layoffs and high unemployment, no worker can afford to slacking off, so be very careful and make sure you abide by all the office rules and don’t bother your boss when you win your tournament jackpot!