The NCAA Tournament is going on right now, but for those of you who don’t follow college basketball, here’s a rundown on how the tournament and March Madness work.
The format
March Madness is the prime time of the year for college basketball, when the best teams from across the nation meet to in an elimination-style bracket.
The winner advances, and the loser goes home with many of its seniors never to play another game of competitive basketball.
The bracket starts with the best 68 teams. Those teams are ranked from first to last and then separated into four regions, each comprising 17 teams.