March Madness Bracket

March Madness brackets 2018 are a form of sports betting based on the annual NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship each spring in the United States. The public's increasing interest in this event is fostered by March Madness pools, or brackets. A bracket is a form that can be completed on-line or printed out and completed by hand whereby the participant predicts the outcome of each game in the tournament. His or her predictions are compared against others in the pool, and whoever has the best prognostication skills wins the contest.

Sixty-eight (68) teams line up with a chance to win the national title. It's not just the best 68 teams from among the more than 300 teams that play Division I basketball, though. Teams are split into 32 conferences, and each of those conferences have an automatic bid. Every conference except the Ivy League plays a season-ending conference tournament, and gives the automatic bid to the winner. The Ivy League plays no tournament, so they give their bid to their regular season champion. The other 36 teams are chosen by a selection committee. They are called at-large bids, and they generally go to the 36 most deserving teams. Obviously it is a very difficult job to pick the 36 best teams, and the process is very subjective and can be very controversial.