Weird Wednesday April 3: Madness to the Method
Okay, the jokes a little late. March is over and the madness is…wait. Not?
The final four games are on April 6th between #4 Alabama Crimson Tide and #1 Connecticut—yeah, I don’t care either. I had to look that up.
But just for fun, here’s an explanation for what March Madness is:
The names of sixty-eight of the best college basketball teams from best divisions (NCAA Division I, sorry NCAA Division III losers) are thrown into a hat and drawn to see who plays whom, and somehow every year the best plays the worst each time.
And you have to win to move to the next round. Since there are six rounds, you have to win six games in a row to with the tournament and the aptly named, “The NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship Trophy”. Here’s what the bracket looks like:
Every year people bet 15 billion on the games, with the longest odds being picking every winner, which are:
1 in 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 (if you just guess or flip a coin)1 in 120.2 billion (if you know a little something about basketball)You have better odds of being struck by lightning…twice.
But, to quote the 20th Century philosopher Lloyd Christmas:
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