An Introduction to The NCAA Basketball Tournament

An Introduction to The NCAA Basketball Tournament: March, next to his reputation as a gateway in the spring, also known madness - "March" madness, that is. Beginning next Thursday, the team of sixty-four people from the college basketball in the NCAA Division 1 will compete in this annual ritual, which will be as loyal fans and newcomers college basketball began to fulfill their "support" to try to determine the winner of the National Basketball title game at the college Championship played in New Orleans on April 2. CBS will broadcast live all over - and in the air and on CBSSports.com.

Support is installed with the choice of the show on Sunday night, and promises to be imbued with great emotion: from the heights of euphoria to the limit, or "bubble" teams make the field, in the deep disappointment of those who are "offended" or otherwise taken into account in the selection process. This process is controlled by Div NCAA. Men's basketball committee, consisting of the directors of university sports and conference commissioners. These so-called "global" rate, thirty-seven of all, based mainly on the figure as a percentage the team rankings, in other words, the strength of its schedule and performance against the calendar.

Web sites like Rivals.com calculate these statistics, which are integral to rank the global team. Generally, the higher RPI team, the greater the chances of getting offers in the broadest sense. Although, RPI has been an accepted way to the national team for three decades, he is not infallible. The dispute can erupt when the supporters of the team to the statistics say that their school is outweighed by those teams that have been adopted. And so a lot of money and prestige at stake in the creation of the tournament, perceived subjectivity of the selection committee decision may lead to a bitter and acrimonious debates.

However, RPI rankings not only means that the team can get on the field. Thirty of the thirty-one slot will be filled with the rest of the conference champions. They are of two "big" conferences such as the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), Big East, Big Ten, etc., and "Mid-Major" conferences, or those who are outside the traditional or the big "power "Conference. Harvard University in the tournament for the first time since 1946, is the sole exception of his lectures, Ivy League, not the championship tournament.

On Tuesday and Wednesday just before the round 64, will not be the "first four" play-off in Dayton, Ohio, where eight teams (the lowest selected for special rates and offers automatic low seed) will play the qualifying round. These games will be broadcast on truTV from 6:30 pm ET.

The four winning teams, and then join sixty other teams in the main event, which is divided into four geographic regions, East, West, Midwest and South - each of which consists of sixteen teams seeds. The first seed always plays the sixteenth, the other in the fifteenth, and so on. As the tournament went to sixty-four teams in 1984, sixteen seed has never beaten the first - if in 2001, fifteenth seed Hampton University beat second seed Iowa State. This is part of the attraction of the tournament - trying to correctly identify the "trouble", while retaining its "Final Four" teams in the championship round.

In addition, there are a lot of fun to watch and record over many games, etc. in the early rounds - thirty-two games were broadcast on the first Thursday and Friday are hectic, fast and full of sorrow and joy. There are eruptions and 'buzzer-beaters, "David Goliath drama occasional competition from defeat, tears of joy and sorrow," white pigs "and the court rushings - All final team happy by reducing the net result in the championship game.

For nearly three weeks, it's an emotional roller coaster will keep fans of college basketball are glued to the cathode glow of a bonfire of our national.