NCAA
It's March. Do you know what time it is? It's March Madness, the NCAA Mens Basketball Tournament. The time of the year when you see commercials on CBS announcing the Road to the Final Four, the pinnacle of the college basketball year. Each year 64 teams vie for a spot in the Final Four. Teams from the East, Midwest, Southwest, and West all compete for one spot from each division. The teams that play for one of these spots can be classified into four different groups. The Number 1 through 4 seeds, the Cinderella teams, the Bubble teams and the One Hit Wonders. The Number 1 through 4 seeds make up 1/4 of the tournament. These teams are the strongest teams in the nation and are usually figured to go to the Final Four. The teams ranked Number 1 in their bracket have the best chance of going to the Final Four. Since 1980 at least one Number 1seed has gone
Teams "on the Bubble" are ranked 7 through 9. They usually upset one team then bow out of the tourney in the second round. Once in the tournament these teams can be transformed into a Cinderella team by beating two higher seeded teams. The teams that are 1 through 4 this year, and figure to be playing for the National Championship, are Kentucky, UMass, Purdue, Georgetown, Cincinnati, Utah, Villanova, and Arizona. Teams from this group are Mississippi Valley, Louisville, Iowa, Indiana, Princeton, and Monmouth. These teams usually don't last farther than the Sweet Sixteen where their season usually comes to an end. Teams that fall into this category are Clemson, Virginia Commonwealth, Austin Peay, Cansius, and Santa Clara. Out of these "Cinderella" teams, many of them were teams "on the Bubble. They ride that wave of momentum into the Field of 64 and hope to upset another higher ranked team in the first and second rounds. They had to sweat it out and hope for other teams to falter and the selection committee to be generous for these teams to make it. These teams can be ranked anywhere from 6 through 15. So as one can see there are many different ways to view the teams from the Field of 64. On the other hand a "Cinderella" team is a team that had a so-so regular season and upset a higher ranked team in their conference tournament. All of these teams had to have had tremendous regular seasons and conference tournaments to be seeded so high.
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