The biggest mystery leading into a March Madness bracket reveal more than a year in the making had little to do with bubble teams or top seeds. Instead, it was the not-so-simple matter of which programs would be healthy enough to play. Kansas and Virginia, two programs hit with COVID-19 breakouts over the past week, […]
Getty Images/Ringer illustration
The men’s NCAA tournament bracket is one of the toughest documents in sports to parse: It features 68 teams, most of which you haven’t watched all season, seeded via a process that is needlessly complex. The system is so complicated that ESPN’s Joe Lunardi has to live in an underground bunker for months on end to figure it out.
The 2021 NCAA March Madness bracket!
How can you possibly win your office bracket pool besides randomly guessing, like the person who somehow wins it every year? Glad you asked. Here’s a region-by-region look at the good, bad, and bizarre in this year’s field to help you make sense of it all.
March Madness in New Rochelle: Iona Books Ticket To The Big Dance - New Rochelle, NY - Legendary hoops coach Rick Pitino will return to the NCAA tournament, this time with New Rochelle's Iona Gaels men's basketball program.
Life on the bubble: Brackets set for return of March Madness - Sports castanet.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from castanet.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Gonzaga, Baylor, Illinois and Michigan earned the top seeds. Kansas and Virginia, two programs hit with COVID-19 breakouts over the past week, made it into the bracket released Sunday by the NCAA selection committee.