March Madness

This week ushers in an annual three-week-long frenzy in the United States known as "March Madness" -- single elimination tournaments for division I collegiate basketball, held under the auspices of the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association).  There are separate tournaments for men and women.  Involving 64 teams (both those who, by winning their conferences, receive automatic bids and those who, based on their records, receive at-large bids) and distributed across more than a dozen sites, each tournament moves relentlessly toward determining the year's national champion.  As winning teams advance into subsequent rounds, they become part of the Sweet Sixteen, the Elite Eight, and then the Final Four.  (You can keep track of the progress of the men's tournament here, of the women's tournament here.)

Basketball in general is classed in 796.323 Basketball, while collegiate basketball is classed in 796.32363 College basketball.  Since March Madness involves teams from only U.S. schools, its number is 796.323630973 College basketball in the United States, built by adding T1--09 Historical, geographic, persons treatment, plus the notation --73 United States from Table 2 Areas, Periods, Persons.   

The NCAA is classed in 796.04306073, built by adding T1--06 Organizations, facilities, management (as modified under 796) to 796.043 College sports, then adding further to the base number --060 the notation  T2--73 United States from Table 2 Areas, Periods, Persons, as instructed at T1--0603-0609 National, state, provincial, local organizations.  The addition of T1--06 is sanctioned by the note at T1--04 to "add other standard subdivisions --01-09 to it and its subdivisions as required."  The preference table at T1 directs us to use T1--04 before any other standard subdivision.

   

Comments

[J Pody]

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[Lexie]

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[Lexie]

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[James]

I love this time of year - March Madness. It seems like everyone, from co-workers to grandma is in an office pool. Beside the standard bracket pool for the Men's NCAA Tournament, I found a supplement last year...

There's a real fun alternative that takes little time to play. There's a public game and you can create private office pools for the Men's tourney, the Women's tourney and the NIT. It seems super simple with little to do but it's harder than it seems. Check it out:

Men's NCAA:
http://www.last2left.com/whatsinplay/mens-college-basketball-08

Women's NCAA:
http://www.last2left.com/whatsinplay/womens-college-basketball-08

Men's NIT:
http://www.last2left.com/whatsinplay/nit-college-basketball-08

[sandhu]

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