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A total of 65 teams entered the tournament. Thirty
of the teams earned automatic bids by winning their conference
tournaments. Penn earned an automatic bid by winning the regular-season
title of the Ivy League, which does not conduct a conference
tournament. The remaining 34 teams were granted "at-large"
bids, which are extended by the NCAA Selection Committee.
Two teams played an opening-round game, popularly
called the "play-in" game; the winner of that game
advanced to the main draw of the tournament and plays a top
seed in one of the regionals. This game has been played at the
University of Dayton Arena in Dayton, Ohio since its inception
in 2001.
This was the second year of the so-called "pod"
system, in which the eight first- and second-round sites are
distributed around the four regionals. Before the 2004 tournament,
all teams playing at a first- or second-round site fed into
the same regional tournament. Since 2004, teams have been assigned
to first- and second-round sites so as to limit the early-round
travel of as many teams as possible. Half of the teams in a
pod advance into separate regional tournaments.
All 64 teams were seeded 1 to 16 within their
regionals; the winner of the play-in game automatically gets
a 16 seed. The Selection Committee seeds the entire field from
1 to 65. For the first time in 2004, the ranking of the four
top seeds against each other would determine the pairings in
the Final Four. The top overall seed would be seeded to play
the fourth overall seed in the national semifinals, should both
teams advance that far.
March Madness
Disambiguation: "March Madness comes from
the phrase 'Mad as a March Hare'. In England, the phrase March
Madness may refer to wasteful spending at the end of a budget
year. The rest of this article covers the use of the term in
reference to the NCAA basketball tournament, also known as the
Road to the Final Four.
March Madness is a popular term for season-ending
basketball tournaments played in March, especially those conducted
by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and various
state high school associations. March Madness is also a registered
trademark, held jointly by the NCAA and the Illinois High School
Association. The trademark has sparked a pair of high-profile
courtroom battles in recent years.
March Madness or Big Dance refers to the frenzy
these tournaments ignite among sports fans and, at least at
the college level, sports gamblers. As it applies to college
basketball, the term originally referred to the conference basketball
tournaments, which occur in March just before the NCAA tournament
begins, but in recent years has been used to refer to the NCAA
tournament itself (the first weekend of which involves some
49 games, and which actually runs into early April). The term
is now used in reference to both the men's and women's tournaments.
March Madness Brackets and Picks
During March Madness, many people enjoy predicting the outcome
of the NCAA tournaments. Bracketology is the art of picking
the correct teams that will be in the tournaments. The 65 (including
the 2 teams who compete in the play-in game) participating teams
are announced by the selection committee on Selection Sunday,
although some teams are known to have made it already by winning
their conference tournament (See: At-large bid, Automatic bid).
The teams are seeded from 1 to 16 in 4 regional groupings around
the country. The eventual winners of the four regions then meet
at the Final Four in a predetermined location. The four seeds
play out the tournament through single eliminaton until a National
Champion is crowned.
As a tournament ritual, the winning team cuts
down the net at the end of the regional championship game. Each
player cuts a single strand off of the net for themselves, commemorating
their victory.
Many people fill out tournament brackets in office
pools. Entrance fees and legality of the pools themselves vary.
Whoever accumulates the most points by accurately predicting
the outcomes of the games wins the grand prize, most often pooled
from the entrance fees. Points are assessed in different ways,
and one example is given below:
First round: 2 point per winning team.
Second round: 4 points per winning team.
Third round: 8 points per winning team.
Fourth round: 16 points per winning team.
Fifth round: 32 points per winning team.
Sixth round: 64 points for predicting National Champion.
The point total steadily increases by round in order to reward
those players who correctly picked teams that would go further
in the tournament.
If at the end of the tournament two players have
the same point total, a tie is often broken by the total number
of total points scored in the Championship Game.
History of the Term March Madness
H. V. Porter, an official with the Illinois High School Association
(and later a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame) was the
first person to use March Madness to commemorate a basketball
tournament. A gifted writer, Porter published an essay named
March Madness in 1939 and in 1942 used the phrase in a poem,
Basketball Ides of March. Through the years the use of March
Madness picked up steam, especially in Illinois and other parts
of the Midwest. During this period the term was used almost
exclusively in reference to state high school tournaments. In
1977, the IHSA published a book about its tournament titled
March Madness.
Fans began connecting the term to the NCAA tournament
in the early 1980s. Evidence suggests that it was CBS sportscaster
Brent Musburger, who had worked for many years in Chicago prior
to joining CBS, who popularized the term during the annual tournament
broadcasts.
Only in the 1990s did either the IHSA or NCAA
think about trademarking the term, and by that time a small
television production company named Intersport, Inc., had beaten
them both to the punch. IHSA eventually bought the trademark
rights from Intersport and then went after big game, suing GTE
Vantage, Inc., an NCAA licensee that used the name March Madness
for a computer game based on the college tournament. In an historic
ruling, Illinois High School Association v. GTE Vantage, Inc.
(1996), the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
created the concept of a "dual-use trademark", granting
both the IHSA and NCAA the right to trademark the term for their
own purposes.
Following the ruling, the NCAA and IHSA joined
forces and created the March Madness Athletic Association to
coordinate the licensing of the trademark and investigate possible
trademark infringement. One such case involved a company that
had obtained the domain name marchmadness.com and was using
it to post information about the NCAA tournament. After protracted
litigation, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth
Circuit held in March Madness Athletic Association v. Netfire,
Inc. (2003), that March Madness was not a generic term, and
ordered Netfire to relinquish the domain name.
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