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March Madness Begins!!!

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:

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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