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Bracketology is the process of predicting the field of college basketball participants in the NCAA men's and women's basketball tournaments, named as such because it is commonly used to fill in tournament brackets for the postseason.
Chartier is the author of Math Bytes: Google Bombs, Chocolate-Covered Pi, and Other Cool Bits in Computing (2014), [11] which won the Euler Book Prize in 2020, [12] and of When Life is Linear: From Computer Graphics to Bracketology (2015), [13] which won the Beckenbach Book Prize in 2017. [14]
The NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, branded as March Madness, is a single-elimination tournament played in the United States to determine the men's college basketball national champion of the Division I level in the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
The name "bracket" is American English, derived from the resemblance of the links in the tree diagram to the bracket punctuation symbol ] or [ (called a "square bracket" in British English). The closest British term is draw, although this implies an element of chance, whereas some brackets are determined entirely by seeding.
The 2008 College Basketball Invitational was the first new postseason tournament since the Collegiate Commissioners Association Tournament in 1974. The opening round was played on March 18, 2008, and March 19, 2008, with the second round being played on March 24, 2008.
The 2021 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament was a single-elimination tournament of 68 teams to determine the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I men's college basketball national champion for the 2020–21 season.
Bracketology with Joe Lunardi Joseph Lunardi is an American college basketball analyst for ESPN . He was born in Philadelphia , attended Saint Joseph's Preparatory School in Philadelphia, as well as Damien High School in CA, and graduated from St. Joseph's University in 1982, where he served as the sports editor for the campus newspaper.
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