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.