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the college basketball tournament that everybody calls march madness is going on right now. of all the division i basketball programs, 68 go to the tournament. the tournament is set up in a big sprawling bracket of games in which every single game is single elimination. so matter how good you are, how highly you are seeded in the tournament, if you lose a game to anyone at any time your team is out. so that's part of why it's exciting. even if you don't follow college basketball the rest of the year it's the possibility of upsets. today there was a great upset. georgia state has a head coach named ron hunter. his son is on the team that he coaches. his son's name is r.j. ron junior. the way that that team, the way georgia state got into the tournament this year is that the coach's son r.j. made the deciding free throws with 20 seconds left to win the game and clinch a trip to the ncaas. and it was very, very exciting. and when he did that, dad and
sunday. that's when the country's top college teams are selected and seated for the annual basketball tournament. it can be rather hard, a little trick toy keep track of it all. cnn's matt weiner breaks it all down for us. >> march madness is really a nickname for the ncaa men's division i basketball tournament. it is also a description of phenomenon which happens every march which is why people are interested in the first place because it really is sort of insanity in the world of college basketball. there are well over 300 division i basketball programs within the ncaa. there is 68 teams that get in each year and 31 by what is called automatic qualification or automatic qualifiers by virtue of winning in the regular season or through a tournament. the other 37 are so-called at large bids. it is a little trickier who gets