The NCAA tournament is a social icon every March with rollercoasters of emotions throughout the games. March Madness is what makes or breaks a season. So, now that it is that time of year, I’m here to break down the bracket. Millions of people filled out their march madness brackets this year, and it’s nearly impossible to pick a perfect one. That means, the main reason nobody can pick a perfect bracket, is because of those cinderella teams, those low seeded teams who go far in the tournament. So, no matter how many years pass, people can’t get it through their heads that there is going to be at least one cinderella team every year, and that’s why people can’t make a perfect bracket. Now, this year of course there are 4 underseeded teams that made the sweet sixteen, which were Michigan and South Carolina as 7 seeds, Wisconsin as an 8 seed, and Xavier as an 11 seed (“Ncaa Division I Men’s Basketball Championship Official Bracket”).
At first glance of the bracket you could’ve said there could be a few low seeds who could make a run, but as it turns out only 6 lower seeded teams won their first round game, with only one of those six teams being in the sweet sixteen, and that team was Xavier. (“Ncaa Division I Men’s Basketball Championship Official Bracket”). Now, with all this talk about March Madness it seems like you have the great teams, and then you have the teams who were underseeded, and could make a run. For example, the Duke Blue Devils, were one of the most favored teams to win the National Championship, but they lost in the second round to a 7 seeded South Carolina team, in one of the biggest upsets in the tournament. Then, the other big upset was the number 1 overall seed in the tournament, Villanova, losing in the second round as well too Wisconsin.
Those are the upsets that make you really think, “Now who’s going to win the tournament?” Cinderella stories are the type of stories you’ll think about for a long time. I mean maybe this is the year where a cinderella team wins the whole tournament. Now, at this point in the tournament you see who are the top dogs left in the tournament, and the teams who are surviving every game, but are still managing to stay in the tournament. Those teams could be able to stay in the tournament longer with winning the close games. With the tournament in the final stages, anything can happen. Teams will do anything to win the title. So, with that in mind everybody can’t wait to see who cuts down the nets and holds the Championship trophy on April 3rd, 2017.