The third round (also known as Sweet 16) will be played on March 23rd and 24th for men and 24th and 25th for women. How the NCAA distributes the billions earned from March Madness.The remaining 32 teams will play in 16 brackets and the winners of each bracket then move on to the next round and the losers again are eliminated from the tournament. This year, the second round (Round of 32) will be played on March 18th and 19th for men and 19th and 20th for women. The next-highest team will play the next-lowest, etc. The No.1 teams in each region will play their region’s No.16 team. This year’s First Round will be played on March 16th and 17th for men and 17th and 18th for women. The No.1 seed should in theory be better than the No.16 seed. Within the regions, the teams are ranked one through 16, which will be the team’s seed. The regions are East, West, South and - no, not North - Midwest. Then, from those 64 teams, the tournament is split into four different regions, with 16 teams in each. The eight teams who play in the First Four are the worst four at-large bids competing against the worst four automatic bids. The opening round of the tournament, known as the First Four (on March 14th and 15th for men and 15th and 16th for women this year) will be played to eliminate four of the 68 teams, leaving 64 remaining. On “Selection Sunday”, which will be held on March 12th this year, the 68 teams are ranked by a selection committee based on how well they played in the regular season. The other 36 are considered “at-large” bids, and will be selected by the NCAA Selection Committee. How are the 68 teams chosen?ģ2 of the 68 teams chosen are “automatic bids”, meaning they were the teams that won their conference’s tournament and thus automatically get into the March Madness tournament. That eventually leads to the “Final Four”, when just four schools remain, who play each other to see who will go on to play in the national championship game. There are several rounds (which I will go over) played by 68 college teams. There is both a men’s and a women’s tournament which happen at the same time, with the dates slightly differing (full 2023 schedule is below).

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