2010 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship Tournament Created by The Bracketz Squad
The Deadline for submitting Predictions is Thursday, March 18th at 10AM E.T.
Scores/Schedules from the Regular/Post Season + Team Descriptions are available by clicking on the Team Name Links underneath the thumbnails.
First and Second Rounds: Thursday and Saturday, March 18 and 20, 2010
First and Second Rounds: Friday and Sunday, March 19 and 21, 2010
Regionals: Thursday and Saturday, March 25 and 27, 2010
Regionals: Friday and Sunday, March 26 and 28, 2010
Final Four: April 3 and 5, 2010
March Madness, 2010: The 65-Team Field
(written by Devin Hakala, MS.)
College Basketball builds to a crescendo during the annual conference tournaments, Selection Sunday, and the resulting Division 1 Men’s Basketball Tournament is renamed each year to March Madness. It truly is a great system. For the “Big Six” conferences (ACC, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-10, and SEC), the top teams know they are in, and the teams that aren’t quite at the top of the conference can play themselves in through the conference tourneys.
For me, the real excitement of College Basketball in March every year begins with the “non-Big Six” conferences. These teams are not guaranteed a spot unless they win their conference for the automatic bid to the NCAA Tourney. In short, they are playing for their NCAA lives each season. These lesser-known conferences and teams are the ones that produce the frenzied celebrations after winning their conference tournament final. It is true that some of these conferences end up with multiple invitations, such as the Atlantic 10, Conference USA, or Mountain West, to name a few. But knowing your conference will end up with only one bid to March Madness obviously raises the stakes.
The teams from the non-Big Six conferences are also the teams that provide the big upsets in the Big Dance, and become the “Cinderella” teams people love to root for. Teams like Davidson, a #10 seed from the Southern Conference two years ago, beat Gonzaga, Georgetown, and Wisconsin on its way to the Elite Eight before losing to Kansas, the eventual winner of the entire tournament. There is also an uncanny consistency that a #12 seed will beat a #5 seed in the First Round of the NCAA, including last year when #12 seed Western Kentucky beat Illinois. Fans who watch March Madness each year remember these and so many other thrilling stories from the history of the NCAA Tournament. Once the games start, you don’t know when you might be watching history. But beyond the nostalgia the games themselves are exciting to watch, and that would not be the case if some of the so-called “lesser teams” weren’t involved.
So click on the Team name links to take a look at the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament field for 2010.
Good Luck!
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