6:30 I feel like this one needs more context. This game is probably considered the greatest college basketball game ever. Duke vs Kentucky in 1992. An outstanding game that went back and forth with both teams playing excellent ball, culminating in that epic last second shot in overtime. Christian Laettner, who made that final shot, literally had a perfect game. 10 for 10 from the field, 10 for 10 from the free throw line.
Couple quick things about March Madness. In the beginning of March, which is the end of the regular season, all of the conferences (think SEC, Big Ten, etc.) have their own championship tournaments. The winners of those tournaments, plus the best non-tournament champions as picked by the selection committee, are seeded into a 64-team tournament (68 total teams are chosen--there are a couple of play-in qualifier games). Teams are ranked 1-16 within their quarter of the bracket, meaning that the top 4 teams in the country each get a 1 seed in their quarter. Then, it's just a single-elimination tournament to the end. Because it's single-elimination and because the winners of the conference tournaments for the smaller conferences are guaranteed a spot, the tournament is FULL of upsets. That's what makes it fun (those teams are often called Cinderella teams, since they start from the bottom but win their way through)
Adding on to this (because its a great reply). The numbers next to the teams are the seed. 1 is the best team in that quarter of the bracket and 16 is the worst. So when you see a much higher number beating a much lower number, that means its a big upset. There are basically 3 weekends of two rounds each weekend at a central location for the 4 teams in that bracket section. The round of 64 and round of 32 take place the first weekend. They are just called that. The first big achievement teams talk about is making the Sweet 16 (round of 16) which means you survived to the next weekend. The same weekend is also the Elite 8. But the big celebration is winning your quarter of the bracket and getting to go to the Final Four. The Final Four is a massive event, with the games often held in football stadiums to fit more people. There are fests, events, rallies, concerts, and just general celebrations that kind of take over the city that is hosting the Final Four.
@@c.simmons2147 both great replies so adding more… the 16 UMBC over 1 Virginia game was included because that was the first and only time a 16 has ever beaten a 1 seed (and they blew them out!). And in the US, fans will fill out the bracket with their predictions and put them in groups with friends to see who gets the most games right. It’s statistically impossible (improbable) to guess a perfect bracket because of all the madness. You should fill out a bracket when it’s announced on Selection Sunday (the Sunday before the tourney stars and they do a show saying who made it and who didn’t).
It’s a tradition for a huge chunk of the US to fill out brackets with who everybody thinks will win. It’s almost completely impossible to have a perfect bracket, and there’s usually a lot of betting pools between friends and families every year.
At 4:21, that was the 1982 National Championship Game. That sequence of events made North Carolina the champions, and yes that was Michael Jordan who was an 18 year old freshman when he hit the shot.
To put it into context for a sport you’re used to, a bunch of these games are like your football League 2 beating not just a team in the Premier League but one of the big 4 or 6. Since it’s single elimination it makes the games that much more intense.
Shot clock in college basketball is, I believe, 30 seconds, or maybe 35. Also, that wasn't Florida against Georgetown. That was Florida Gulf Coast University -- an absolutely unknown team that was making its NCAA tournament debut in remarkable fashion.
It’d be fun to watch you fill out a bracket knowing nothing about the teams. No perfect bracket has ever been filled, and millions are done every year. March madness is very unpredictable.
HUNDREDS of millions, my guy! And there was a perfect bracket once, several years ago. The guy said it was total luck and he'd submitted dozens. But you're right, it's never been predictable, there are always major upsets. Every year. That's what makes it magical!
The 2006 Sweet 16 (Gonzaga-UCLA seen from 10:19-11:03) was one of the most memorable moments for me, not least because it was my senior year of high school right before I started college. Gonzaga led UCLA by 17 points earlier in the game, and then fell apart. Adam Morrison (the one who was crying at center court) was the leading scorer in the NCAA for that season, and was a top three finisher for the Naismith Award, which is the award for the best individual player for the entire year. UCLA went on to be runner up that year. The other fun part was announcer Gus Johnson - many see his passion and excitement as being the best part of the tournament. His phrase of "Heartbreak City!" is quite true for many teams.
My favorite thing about March madness is how no name schools like Florida Gulf Coast, or Saint Peter’s last year get a chance to make their mark. There’s 64 teams in the tournament broken into 4 regions that are seeded 1-16. Many times the seeds 12-16 come from conferences that are really bad and only get in because they got an auto bud for winning their confrence, so when you see a 2 seed lose to a 15 seed, it’s more like a top 10 team losing to like the 200th team in the country. In soccer terms it’s similar to Chelsea or someone losing to a EFL team
Not to mention the time in 2018, when UMBC -- 16 seed, america east champion, and 188th-best team in the country per pre-tourney kenpom rankings -- beat #1-in-the-nation Virginia. Prior to that, the 1-16 matchup was the one thing you could count on in the NCAAs, as the top seeds in each region had a record of 135-0 against the 16-seeds. Occasionally it was close but it always went to the top seed. But then the UMBC win *wasn't* close. They won by 20.
Actually the 12 seeds usually have a chance to make a run because they are the best of the lesser conferences so it's not that surprising when they win a couple games in the tournament. They usually have 30+ wins at the end of the season and only like 4 losses. The experts suggest when filling out a bracket that you would be better off picking half or more of the 12-seeds to win their first game.
@@DatDudeVince oh I didn't know that. That's a great stat for Loyola Chicago, but sad for the state of Illinois. I mean I knew Loyola had won it once as that was talked about a lot during the Ramblers' run that year but I didn't know that was the only one the state had ever won. That's crazy
9:09 that game has to be the craziest upset I have ever seen by a million miles. I will never forget watching that live. Virginia was arguably the best team in the country, top 4 at the least, and they were playing a 16th seeded (Last place in that quarter of the bracket and bottom 4 of the entire tournament) and it wasn't even a close game!! Insane! Essentially a top 4 team in the country lost tp a team ranked at best 64th
College basketball is MUCH better than NBA. No hero ball, physical play, and fouls actually exist. March madness is hands down the greatest post season of any sport, every year is full of crazy upsets, buzzer beaters, and more. There is a lot more parity in college basketball than there is in football, any given night any team can win, even against the most dominate teams
That moment with the Michigan player calling a timeout when his team didn’t have one is one of the most iconic moments in college basketball history. That was Chris Weber, and he was part of a recruiting class at Michigan known as “The Fab Five.” No, that wasn’t Derrick Rose, that was Jalen Rose, and Rose and Weber have had a huge falling out since that moment, and it’s been exasperated upon because there was an ESPN documentary about those players, and Weber was the only one who wasn’t interviewed, and Rose is an NBA analyst to this day.
I remember watching the ucla game back in 06 and seeing Morrison on the floor was priceless. I recommend checking out the greatest college basketball dynasties if you have time.
The Laettner shot at 6:31 is the reason my mom--a girl from rural Ohio about 7 hours from Durham, NC--named me after Cameron Indoor Stadium (where Duke plays). And at 12:18 that is Jalen Rose, not Derrick (Derrick played at the University of Memphis about 15 years after that moment you saw). That is a scene depicting the University of Michigan's Fab Five of the 1990s. They were expected to win four straight national championships led by Chris Webber, Juwan Howard--now the UofM coach, Jimmy King, Ray Jackson, and the aforementioned Jalen Rose. They only made it to two--1992 as Freshman and 1993 as Sophomores--and they lost both games. The scene you saw was from the second of these, and the first was to Duke, who was also seen a lot in the video. Also, at 13:42, they *did* when their Regional Final, going all the way to the 2018 Final Four where they lost to Michigan, who then lost in the National Championship to Villanova (the team that beat North Carolina in 2016 earlier in the video).
4:52 For context. This was the final. The championship game. Kansas was down 9 points with just two minutes left to go. This shot sent the game into overtime and Kansas would go on to win 75 to 68. Memphis had only lost one game all season and Kansas had only lost three at this point. Memphis's starting point guard was Derrick Rose. Kansas had three players on its team that would go on to win NBA championships. Brandon Rush won one with the Golden State Warriors, Mario Chalmers (who hit the shot) won two with the Miami Heat and Sasha Kaun would win one with the Cleveland Cavilers. This is the only time in the history of the tournament where all four number 1 seeds (the four highest rated teams when the tournament started) made it to the semifinals (aka the Final Four). Kansas was the lowest ranked at 1 seed or the other four.
I attended Loyola-Chicago for uni 25 years ago because it's just one mile from my house. It's cool that our basketball team is being viewed on this channel from across the Atlantic Ocean!!
@12:20 that is Jalen Rose, Chris Webber, Jimmy King, Ray Jackson, and Juwan Howard for Michigan. They were. Allen the Fab Five as it was a ridiculous recruiting class
Also, scheduling note: March Madness is played *mostly* in March, but the Final Four is usually the first week of April. Preceding March Madness, however, are the conference tournaments, known on ESPN as Championship Week but the more cultured among us know it's actually Championship Fortnight. These are important because the winner of each one automatically gets in to the main March Madness tournament, regardless of how bad a season they might be having otherwise. There are 32 conferences, but the worst four conference champions go to the "play-in" round so these account for only 30 of the 64 teams in the main bracket, with the other 34 being selected by a committee based on their entire season. (this is technically a lie; it's the other *36* that are selected by a committee, with again the worst four going to a play-in round.)
0:59 The guy celebrating in the purple stripped shirt and the white long sleeve shirt underneath is Kurt Warner. NFL Hall of Fame Quarterback and Northern Iowa graduate.
I’ll go to my grave convinced Webber was on the take in that Michigan game. He did everything possible to screw up. Power forwards never bring the ball up court especially at the end of the game
Think too the round of 64 is played on two days Thursday and Friday. There are 16 games each day and played on four different tv stations. Games start around 12 pm east coast and go until the last game ends around midnight. Four cities have four games back to back to back to back. They also stagger the start times in each city to not have all the crucial ends happening at the same time. And then Friday we repeat it again in four different cities/venues. It’s insane broadcast coverage as it’s literally all day long. Then you have 16 games across Saturday/Sunday too for even more Madness! Then after those four days you go from 64 to 16 teams in what’s known as Sweet 16. Like you’ve commented many NBA guys get known here nationally too.
What's important about a lot of these too is the seeds. A last minute shot is impressive, but it's even more impressive when a 12, 13, 14, 15 or 16 seed team upsets one of the favorites going in
Loyola lost but it was the best run by an 11 seed ever. Another one to look up is the Florida Gulf Coast University run to the Sweet 16. That was amazing as well. These teams gain fans when they upset big teams and everybody starts rooting for them. Its awesome.
I would argue that the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament - a.k.a. "March Madness" - is the American equivalent of the FA Cup. When the college basketball season begins, a few hundred Division 1 universities - a sizable minority of which don't have an American football team - compete in conferences (mini-leagues) to determine who will get into the final 64-team tournament. The tournament itself is single elimination... win or go home. While it is certainly possible for a smaller and/or lesser known school to make a run, it's usually the universities known for basketball (with better resources) that end up in the Final Four and National Championship. The end of the 2016 National Championship between Villanova and North Carolina (at 5:02 - the clip with the indoor fireworks) is one of the best ever endings to the college basketball season.
Like the FA Cup, the NCAA basketball tournaments (both men & women) are single-elimination tournaments. Unlike the FA Cup, there is no frresh draw for each round. Teams are ranked 1-16 in each of 4 regionals, and the brackets are fixed. The winners of each regional move to the Final Four, the winner of which is Division 1 National Champion. The first NCAA Men's championship tournamet was held in 1939. High school basketball is also very popular in the US, especially in the states of Illinois, Indiana & Kentucky. Illinois, where I live, has the oldest high school boy's state basketball tournament, first played in 1908.
The reason some of these conferences like the Big 10 and Big 12 have a weird amount of schools is traditionally they had that amount of schools but because of recent realignments they've added or subtracted, and don't want to change their branding. This coming season the Big 12 are adding Cincinnati, Houston. BYU and Central Florida to climb up to 14 teams. They had 12 until Colorado joined the Pac-12 and Nebraska joined the Big 10.
1983 - Championship Game...North Carolina State University vs. The University of Houston . NC State wins on a long, missed shot that was caught in the air by the player's teammate and dunked into the basket at the last second. Nobody could believe it! ...Be sure to fill out your bracket this year after the tournament teams are chosen and before the tournament begins.
At 9:20 you may not understand the significance there, that was the first time a 16 seed EVER beat a 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. A 1 over a 16 was just an automatic win forever until that moment. That's not ranking numbers that's seeding for the Tournament. March Madness is the unofficial name for the NCAA Tournament.
March Madness is single elimination games, yes. The Virginia vs UMBC (University of Maryland - Baltimore County) game was a massive upset. Unlike the FA cup, matchups aren't random but decided in advance so the better your seed going in, the easier your opposition early. There's four regions, each with seeds 1-16, and going into that game, 1 seeds had won all 135 games against 16 seeds dating back to the 1985 tournament which was the first to even have 16 teams in each region. Most of the 1-16 games weren't even close. Only like five or six had been within ten points, and only one went to overtime; meanwhile 40-point blowouts are pretty common. This is partly because the 16 seeds get in by just winning their conference tournament; most of the conferences don't really have a lot of good teams, if any. UMBC, for instance, was ranked outside the top 150 teams entering the tournament and had to pull a couple very surprising upsets to even get to that game after a lackluster regular season with such unpromising results as a loss to conference foe Albany by a score of 83-39. Virginia, meanwhile, was widely favored to win the entire tournament. The thing is, everyone figured a 16 seed would beat a 1 someday. A couple other teams that year were even trendy picks to at least come close. But nobody thought it'd be UMBC and we also always thought it'd be a close game. We'd seen the formula, many times: 1 seed gets out to a slow, uninspired start, 16 seed, excited to even be on the same court, gets out to an early lead, and then the 1 seed starts mounting the comeback. Usually this still resulted in the top seed winning by at least 20. Sometimes the weaker team hung around a little longer, and it was still close with five minutes left. On very rare occasions, it'd even still be in doubt in the final minute. But the thing is, even when UMBC had a twenty point lead at halftime, we were thinking "oh wow, this could be a close one." Virginia was *going*to close the gap. That's just what happens. It's like when San Marino scores the first goal against a top European team, it doesn't mean they'll win, it just means there's a chance the loss will be less severe than usual. And then something funny happened, which is that nothing happened. UMBC just kept having a big lead. Somewhere around five minutes left in the fourth quarter, everyone started to finally realize that this was it, Virginia wasn't coming back, UMBC was actually going to win. The arena actually got kind of quiet as everyone tried to figure out how to respond to this. And then the final buzzer sounded. I'm not even a UMBC fan; I just root for underdogs. But I'm tearing up writing this comment as I'm finally having the emotions I, and everyone else, didn't have during the game because we were just so completely shocked.
Don't feel too bad for Virginia, though. They won the entire tournament the next year. Also Loyola didn't go through to the final even; they won the *regional* final to go through to the final four, however, which was itself a massive surprise.
So cool you are doing March Madness. I love college basketball and the tournament is a breeding ground for amazing upsets and never fails to entertain. MIZ.
12:55 Those are my Loyola Ramblers. It's a small school in Rogers Park (Chicago) that wasn't even supposed to compete. They won 3 consecutive games *in the last 10 seconds.* (12:4013:1113:32) That's never happened before. Unfortunately they lost in the Final 4. March Madness is the best tourney in US sports bcz it's 1-and-done & you never know what's gonna happen. Your heart is ripped out when your team loses.
Growing up in North Carolina this and the ACC tournament were basically holidays. we’d literally watch basketball in school during them. College bball is massive in North Carolina and home to the “big 4” in Duke, NC State, UNC, and Wake Forest
6:31 this is by far the most famous/infamous shot in college basketball, depending on how you feel about Duke and Kentucky, which are the most storied programs in the sport arguably at any level. This was the 1992 regional final, they had both rolled through their ends of the bracket then had one of the best games ever against each other. Here in Kentucky, to this day, basketball fans wear "Fuck Christian Laettner" shirts every time we play Duke, to signify our hatred of the guy that made this shot lol.
9:10 This was the first and only time so far that a 16 seed beat a number 1 seed. Virginia was also the highest rated team in the country heading into the tournament, but one of their best players was injured just prior to the tournament. This Virginia team would win the championship the following year.
The guy crying on Gonzaga was one of the best college bball players ever. He kinda stunk it up in the pros but Morrison was mostly unstoppable at Gonzaga.
At @9:16 that is the first 16 seed to beat a 1 seed. Opening round each of four regions seeded 1-16. The four one seeds are considered the top 4 and the four 16 seeds are usually the bottom 4 in the tournament. Not only did UMBC beat the overall #1 seed they destroyed them. In the history of the tournament only one 16 seed has won. Something like 6 or 7 two seeds have lost to 15 seeds in the history of the tournament.
March madness is a national tournament for NCAA basketball involving the Division 1 teams (which there are 350 of) Each of these hundreds of schools is broke up into 32 conferences which have around 8-16 teams each. each conference has its own tournament. All teams are seeded based on where they finished in the conference, and then play one game per day until a champion is crowned. The bigger conferences usually determine this winner by saturday of the second week of march, and the smaller ones have champions crowned a week prior. When a team wins that conference tournament, they are automatic qualifiers(AQ) for the national tournament. the second Sunday in march (known as Selection Sunday) is when these AQ's are seeded along with 34 at large teams that didn't win their conference tournament but have worthy resumes by getting huge wins (or less bad losses) the tournament since 1985 has included 64 teams where 4 regions of 16 teams each are slotted. Each of these regions in the first round have the 16 teams matching up as follows from top to bottom: 1 vs 16 8 vs 9 4 vs 13 5 vs 12; 3 vs 14 6 vs 11 7 vs 10 2 vs 15 From there, 6 rounds of single elimination games take place over the next 3 weeks. That means 2 rounds of play take place in each week (Thursday - Sunday) (side note) Since 2011 there's been a 68 team field where the last 8 teams play 4 play in games on Tuesday -Wednesday (known as the "First four"). These determine the final 4 spots in the actual tournament (which will be 2 #16 teams as well as either 2 #11 seeds or a #11 and #12 seed )
9:23 The tournament consists of four brackets, each seeded 1-16. Until this game, no 16 seed had ever beaten a 1 seed - much less by over 20 points. Imagine MK Dons beating Arsenal 3-nil.... That's a rough equivalent of unlikelihood.
UMBC which you asked about is the University of Maryland at Baltimore County which as you probably surmised is one of the extension schools of the University of Maryland but have their own independent athletic departments. And you're correct in the NCAA tournament it's one and done meaning if you lose a game in your regional you're out. And the school you were having trouble pronouncing was the University of Loyola at Chicago which is a Jesuit Catholic insititution in the city of Chicago, Illinois. And the school with the blue jerseys and won when one of their players tossed a lob pass and the big white guy came soaring in and dunked was the FGCU (Florida Gulf Coast University) which is located on the west side of the Florida peninsula at Fort Meyers. The kid from Gonzaga Adam Morrison who you called poor guy because he was crying after losing on a last second shot did play briefly as a professional but couldn't translate his skill in college to the NBA. He was in the league for six years however but never got that much playing time. One thing not in his favor was that he had diabetes which required insulin shots and I'm sure in some way proved a difficult circumstance for him. I saw several games featuring my favorite team the University of North Carolina which is a blue blood school and has appeared in more final four games than any other school and won six national championships and seven if you count the one they won in the 1920s before the NCAA even existed. UNC is also the third winningest school in the history of college basketball behind Kentucky, and Kansas. It is the alma mater of many great players among them Billy Cunningham, James Worthy, Vince Carter and Michael Jordan whose winning shot in the 1982 national championship game against Georgetown you showed. He was only a freshman then and most times referred to as Mike Jordan, but afterward was called Michael Jordan. My family lived in the city where he grew up Wilmington, NC. After UNC gave him a scholarship my youngest brother went to watch one of his high school games at Laney HS. He said he couldn't figure out which player he was until this kid started making spectacular dunks and numerous other athletic plays which informed him of who he was. I saw him play in college but didn't realize he would become as great a player as he became. And even in his senior year of high school his team only won 19 games and were eliminated in the state playoffs by another high school located in Wilmington which was New Hanover HS who had two players who went on to play professional sports Kenny Gattison who had a substantial career in the NBA and Clyde Simmons who played as a lineman a number of years in the NFL mostly with the Philadephia Eagles.
March madness is so crazy in the US. I used to work for a large company with hundreds of offices across the country and in march one year we got a company wide email from the big boss for everyone to get off the NCAA website and stop checking march madness updates because it was clogging up our computer systems. Lol 😂
The tournament will start on March 16. That's a Thursday. They only play half of the games in a round, per day. So, the 16th will be half of the 1st round, and the other half play the next day. Then Saturday will be half of the 2nd round games, with the other half playing on Sunday. Then they don't play again until the next Thursday, when half of the 3rd round games will be played. Then the other half on Friday. Same for the weekend, for round 4. That gets them down to the final 4 teams. They don't play again until the following Saturday, when both games are played. The two winners then play 2 days later, on Monday night.
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Its called the NCAA Division 1 college basketball tournament. After conference tournaments are finished winners are automatically in. 64 total teams, conferences take about 16 positons.The rest are picked by the selection committee so the last 2-6 teams in are always controversial with others saying itshould be them. Also gambling on the 64 team brackets is gigantic with every office workplace having there own bracket betting pool, and espn creating terms like "bracketology" with many hrs of coverage on the gambling aspect!
Just a few notes cause I love when Europeans help me learn about soccer/football. Yep, you're right that was Kawhi Leonard that had a shot pretty much identical to that in basically the same spot! Also at 9:30 when you talk about rank 16 and 1 -- these are tournament seed numbers, and there are 4 regions every year for this final tournament, so there are 4 #16s and 4 #1 seeds. So basically you can read UMBC as #64 for all intents and purposes as Virginia was both one of the four #1 seeds and also the #1 overall seed and #1 team in the country in the traditional, season-long rankings by the media. This was the first and only time a 16 seed had beaten a number 1 seed in the many decades of march madness. UMBC is University of Maryland Baltimore County I think or something like that, no one had heard of them. They weren't only a cinderella, they were a cinderella team no one had heard of. 12:17 nope, that's Jalen Rose. No relation to Derrick. This Michigan team in the yellow is known as the "Fab 5", they were the first team to start all 5 freshmen (year 1s in uni) in college basketball and basically influenced the game a lot by bringing swagger and style that was new to the sport. 12:45 is pretty cool as that is a small time Catholic school that had a very famous nun attend all their games as a sort of media and spiritual mascot, if you will. Was pretty wholesome and they had multiple upsets in the same tournament. Loyola of Chicago is named after Saint Ignatius of Loyola -- Loyola is in Spain. I don't think most Americans know how to pronounce it either unless they happen to be Catholic haha.
I don't know what kind of magic this tournament has going for it. But, every year there are several of these buzzer-beater wins. That's what the "madness" is about. First round upsets are made by the 12 seeds beating the 5 seeds, most often. A 1 seed has been beaten once, by a 16 seed. And 11 seeds have beaten 3 seeds many times. It's not unusual for a team that most Americans have never heard of (would be 15 or 16 seeds) wins 2-3 games.
Oh, the shot clock, I think it's 30 seconds now. Yeah, it used to 45 in college, which they actually didn't even have a shot clock until the mid-eighties,- the NBA shot clock is much older, and then they changed it to 35, in the 90s, and now it's down to 30 seconds.
Join an online pool for the bracket challenge this year. Good way to learn the and maybe win some money, the underdogs always throw the tourney upside down.
You have to pay attention to the seeds aka the numbers in front of the teams name. Four regions of 16 teams each seeded 1-16. Northern Iowa was 13 seed and Texas was a 4 seed so a huge upset. Hence the word Madness, Cinderella, etc.
At 9:34 I know it seems massive like 1 gets beat by 16 that sounds surprising. But I'll make it even crazier for context so there are 4 sides of 16 teams and so the number 1 seeds are the top 4 teams in college basketball, number 2 seeds are 5th 6th 7th 8th best teams and so on and so forth until 68 teams are filled in. This was like number 2 vs number 68. This is the 1st time a 16 seed has beaten a 1.
RE: The schools that you don't recognize... The tournament gives small schools from small conferences an opportunity to play on a national stage. Most don't get much attention and are seeded low. This leads to amazing underdog stories and upsets.
Virginia losing to UMBC was the first time in HISTORY that the 16 seed beat the #1 seed and not only that but Virginia was the actual #1 team being #1 amongst the other 3 # seeds in the other regions. So the first team in it lost to the last team to make the tournament. Had never happened before…
3:39 that’s not University of Florida. That’s Florida Gulf Coast University. I’m sorry to keep spamming comments, but I love March Madness so much! Another cool thing about the Madness is in college, every single division 1 school competes for the same national title, where football is split up between FBS (Football Bowl Series) and FCS (Football Championship Series). So you have at least one school from each conference, the conference tournament champions, for every conference. From the big conferences, like the Big Ten, Big 12, and SEC, to the little guys, like WAC, Ohio Valley Conference, and Atlantic Sun. You’ll see these tiny schools just shock some of the big dogs
Pretty much every year, there is at least one “Cinderella” team in the tournament, one that no one saw making nearly as far as they do. There has never been all 4 number 1 seeds to make the Final Four.
I don't know if anyone has mentioned it in the comments yet but I'll say it anyways. The NCAA basketball tournament is a bunch of neutral sites. The Round of 64 and Round of 32 are played at 8 different locations. The Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight are played at 4 different locations. The Final Four and National Championship game are played at the same one site as well. All of the locations are determined a few years in advance. If you are a 1 or 2 seed in the tournament then the committee deciding where you go will cater to you. You are more likely to get a favorable site for your regional games. If you are a 1 seed as Kansas for example, you would go to Kansas City if that was one of the options.
In the tournament you have 4 different regions w teams seeded 1-16 in each region. 16 plays 1 first round 15 plays 2 and so on…So 11 beating a 6 might not sound like much but its a pretty big gap between the 2…
In America, we have high schools that you would mistake for a college. There’s high school gyms that can seat 15,000. Some states take their sports serious like Texas
Whether or not a kid is an A list star or just a reserve, one run into the NCAA tournment is something every basketball kid dreams of. An old adage says that " kids cry like babies...pros whine like babies".
The conferences used to make sense and used to have the amount of teams they had in the name…unfortunately about 10 or so years ago a whole bunch of teams switched around….the only conference that switched their name was the PAC 10 to the PAC 12 😂
First off, you're correct. It was Kawhi Leonard that made a similar shot as the Wisconsin kid. Secondly, there is no such thing as watching too many sports.😁
The University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) and Fairleigh Dickenson are the only 16th-seeded teams in March Madness history to upset a #1-seeded team. I hope more 16th-seeded teams win in their first rounds, to show that it isn't impossible. March Madness, and basically the entire college basketball season, is my favorite part of the year. March Madness always gets me in the mood for basketball, and hypes me up whenever I get the time to watch some games with my dad and his friends.
There’s roughly 350 college basketball teams. The top 64 make the tournament and it’s single elimination over the course of a few weeks and who ever wins is crowned national champions
6:30 I feel like this one needs more context. This game is probably considered the greatest college basketball game ever. Duke vs Kentucky in 1992. An outstanding game that went back and forth with both teams playing excellent ball, culminating in that epic last second shot in overtime. Christian Laettner, who made that final shot, literally had a perfect game. 10 for 10 from the field, 10 for 10 from the free throw line.
Couple quick things about March Madness. In the beginning of March, which is the end of the regular season, all of the conferences (think SEC, Big Ten, etc.) have their own championship tournaments. The winners of those tournaments, plus the best non-tournament champions as picked by the selection committee, are seeded into a 64-team tournament (68 total teams are chosen--there are a couple of play-in qualifier games). Teams are ranked 1-16 within their quarter of the bracket, meaning that the top 4 teams in the country each get a 1 seed in their quarter. Then, it's just a single-elimination tournament to the end. Because it's single-elimination and because the winners of the conference tournaments for the smaller conferences are guaranteed a spot, the tournament is FULL of upsets. That's what makes it fun (those teams are often called Cinderella teams, since they start from the bottom but win their way through)
Adding on to this (because its a great reply).
The numbers next to the teams are the seed. 1 is the best team in that quarter of the bracket and 16 is the worst. So when you see a much higher number beating a much lower number, that means its a big upset.
There are basically 3 weekends of two rounds each weekend at a central location for the 4 teams in that bracket section. The round of 64 and round of 32 take place the first weekend. They are just called that. The first big achievement teams talk about is making the Sweet 16 (round of 16) which means you survived to the next weekend. The same weekend is also the Elite 8. But the big celebration is winning your quarter of the bracket and getting to go to the Final Four. The Final Four is a massive event, with the games often held in football stadiums to fit more people. There are fests, events, rallies, concerts, and just general celebrations that kind of take over the city that is hosting the Final Four.
@@c.simmons2147 both great replies so adding more… the 16 UMBC over 1 Virginia game was included because that was the first and only time a 16 has ever beaten a 1 seed (and they blew them out!). And in the US, fans will fill out the bracket with their predictions and put them in groups with friends to see who gets the most games right. It’s statistically impossible (improbable) to guess a perfect bracket because of all the madness. You should fill out a bracket when it’s announced on Selection Sunday (the Sunday before the tourney stars and they do a show saying who made it and who didn’t).
March Madness is a single elimination, 64 team bracket tournament. There are 4 groups of teams ranked 1-16, so 4 1-seeds, 4 2-seeds, etc.
It’s important to know this to understand the upsets
Damn 64 teams, That's an intense competition, similar to what we have in England!
@@BritishGuy22 there 68 teams
@@roboticyellow32 that’s kinda true. It’s 64 in the main bracket but there are 4 teams that have play-in games to make it to the main bracket
It’s a tradition for a huge chunk of the US to fill out brackets with who everybody thinks will win. It’s almost completely impossible to have a perfect bracket, and there’s usually a lot of betting pools between friends and families every year.
At 4:21, that was the 1982 National Championship Game. That sequence of events made North Carolina the champions, and yes that was Michael Jordan who was an 18 year old freshman when he hit the shot.
To put it into context for a sport you’re used to, a bunch of these games are like your football League 2 beating not just a team in the Premier League but one of the big 4 or 6. Since it’s single elimination it makes the games that much more intense.
Shot clock in college basketball is, I believe, 30 seconds, or maybe 35.
Also, that wasn't Florida against Georgetown. That was Florida Gulf Coast University -- an absolutely unknown team that was making its NCAA tournament debut in remarkable fashion.
Used to be 35, now it’s 30
It’d be fun to watch you fill out a bracket knowing nothing about the teams. No perfect bracket has ever been filled, and millions are done every year. March madness is very unpredictable.
Imagine I do it first try haha, Maybe I'll see if I can put a bet on filling out a bracket If that's possible
HUNDREDS of millions, my guy! And there was a perfect bracket once, several years ago. The guy said it was total luck and he'd submitted dozens. But you're right, it's never been predictable, there are always major upsets. Every year. That's what makes it magical!
it wasn’t perfect, was just the closest one
@@BritishGuy22 I think you can enter an online pool or find one online a print one out
The 2006 Sweet 16 (Gonzaga-UCLA seen from 10:19-11:03) was one of the most memorable moments for me, not least because it was my senior year of high school right before I started college. Gonzaga led UCLA by 17 points earlier in the game, and then fell apart. Adam Morrison (the one who was crying at center court) was the leading scorer in the NCAA for that season, and was a top three finisher for the Naismith Award, which is the award for the best individual player for the entire year. UCLA went on to be runner up that year. The other fun part was announcer Gus Johnson - many see his passion and excitement as being the best part of the tournament. His phrase of "Heartbreak City!" is quite true for many teams.
My favorite thing about March madness is how no name schools like Florida Gulf Coast, or Saint Peter’s last year get a chance to make their mark. There’s 64 teams in the tournament broken into 4 regions that are seeded 1-16. Many times the seeds 12-16 come from conferences that are really bad and only get in because they got an auto bud for winning their confrence, so when you see a 2 seed lose to a 15 seed, it’s more like a top 10 team losing to like the 200th team in the country. In soccer terms it’s similar to Chelsea or someone losing to a EFL team
Not to mention the time in 2018, when UMBC -- 16 seed, america east champion, and 188th-best team in the country per pre-tourney kenpom rankings -- beat #1-in-the-nation Virginia. Prior to that, the 1-16 matchup was the one thing you could count on in the NCAAs, as the top seeds in each region had a record of 135-0 against the 16-seeds. Occasionally it was close but it always went to the top seed. But then the UMBC win *wasn't* close. They won by 20.
@@psymar average margin of victory for a 1-16 game is around 27 points I believe
Actually the 12 seeds usually have a chance to make a run because they are the best of the lesser conferences so it's not that surprising when they win a couple games in the tournament. They usually have 30+ wins at the end of the season and only like 4 losses. The experts suggest when filling out a bracket that you would be better off picking half or more of the 12-seeds to win their first game.
@@Reindurr417 12 seeds are not the best of the lesser conferences… those are the 16-13 seeds. The 12 seeds are the middle of the top conferences
Loyola Chicago that year miraculously made it to the Final Four but lost there.
Loyola Chicago won the tournament in 1963 and remain the only Illinois team to ever win it.
@@DatDudeVince oh I didn't know that. That's a great stat for Loyola Chicago, but sad for the state of Illinois. I mean I knew Loyola had won it once as that was talked about a lot during the Ramblers' run that year but I didn't know that was the only one the state had ever won. That's crazy
I'm a huge football fan but the first weekend of March Madness is the best weekend in sports
9:09 that game has to be the craziest upset I have ever seen by a million miles. I will never forget watching that live. Virginia was arguably the best team in the country, top 4 at the least, and they were playing a 16th seeded (Last place in that quarter of the bracket and bottom 4 of the entire tournament) and it wasn't even a close game!! Insane! Essentially a top 4 team in the country lost tp a team ranked at best 64th
9:10 is the biggest upset in March madness history. #16 seed never beat a #1 seed before that game
College basketball is MUCH better than NBA. No hero ball, physical play, and fouls actually exist. March madness is hands down the greatest post season of any sport, every year is full of crazy upsets, buzzer beaters, and more. There is a lot more parity in college basketball than there is in football, any given night any team can win, even against the most dominate teams
That Kansas/Memphis game was for the 2008 National Championship. Kansas beat Memphis, 75-68, in overtime. That shot has been dubbed Mario's Miracle
That moment with the Michigan player calling a timeout when his team didn’t have one is one of the most iconic moments in college basketball history. That was Chris Weber, and he was part of a recruiting class at Michigan known as “The Fab Five.” No, that wasn’t Derrick Rose, that was Jalen Rose, and Rose and Weber have had a huge falling out since that moment, and it’s been exasperated upon because there was an ESPN documentary about those players, and Weber was the only one who wasn’t interviewed, and Rose is an NBA analyst to this day.
I remember watching the ucla game back in 06 and seeing Morrison on the floor was priceless. I recommend checking out the greatest college basketball dynasties if you have time.
Saying “poor guy” while Adam Morrison cries is just about the most accurate thing you could’ve said.
The Laettner shot at 6:31 is the reason my mom--a girl from rural Ohio about 7 hours from Durham, NC--named me after Cameron Indoor Stadium (where Duke plays).
And at 12:18 that is Jalen Rose, not Derrick (Derrick played at the University of Memphis about 15 years after that moment you saw). That is a scene depicting the University of Michigan's Fab Five of the 1990s. They were expected to win four straight national championships led by Chris Webber, Juwan Howard--now the UofM coach, Jimmy King, Ray Jackson, and the aforementioned Jalen Rose. They only made it to two--1992 as Freshman and 1993 as Sophomores--and they lost both games. The scene you saw was from the second of these, and the first was to Duke, who was also seen a lot in the video.
Also, at 13:42, they *did* when their Regional Final, going all the way to the 2018 Final Four where they lost to Michigan, who then lost in the National Championship to Villanova (the team that beat North Carolina in 2016 earlier in the video).
4:52 For context. This was the final. The championship game. Kansas was down 9 points with just two minutes left to go. This shot sent the game into overtime and Kansas would go on to win 75 to 68. Memphis had only lost one game all season and Kansas had only lost three at this point. Memphis's starting point guard was Derrick Rose. Kansas had three players on its team that would go on to win NBA championships. Brandon Rush won one with the Golden State Warriors, Mario Chalmers (who hit the shot) won two with the Miami Heat and Sasha Kaun would win one with the Cleveland Cavilers.
This is the only time in the history of the tournament where all four number 1 seeds (the four highest rated teams when the tournament started) made it to the semifinals (aka the Final Four). Kansas was the lowest ranked at 1 seed or the other four.
I attended Loyola-Chicago for uni 25 years ago because it's just one mile from my house. It's cool that our basketball team is being viewed on this channel from across the Atlantic Ocean!!
You should watch a video or two about the Super Bowl since it is tomorrow
There is a good video called "What is March Madness?" by Zealand which is pretty good.
The NCAA Tournament is my favorite time of year. Rock Chalk!
I can still remember leaping off my couch, screaming, which scared the hell out of my girlfriend🤣
With March coming up and the regular season winding down, it would be interesting to see how you would fill out the brackets when it comes out
College sports just have a different feel! Gotta love it!
@12:20 that is Jalen Rose, Chris Webber, Jimmy King, Ray Jackson, and Juwan Howard for Michigan. They were. Allen the Fab Five as it was a ridiculous recruiting class
Also, scheduling note: March Madness is played *mostly* in March, but the Final Four is usually the first week of April. Preceding March Madness, however, are the conference tournaments, known on ESPN as Championship Week but the more cultured among us know it's actually Championship Fortnight. These are important because the winner of each one automatically gets in to the main March Madness tournament, regardless of how bad a season they might be having otherwise. There are 32 conferences, but the worst four conference champions go to the "play-in" round so these account for only 30 of the 64 teams in the main bracket, with the other 34 being selected by a committee based on their entire season. (this is technically a lie; it's the other *36* that are selected by a committee, with again the worst four going to a play-in round.)
0:59 The guy celebrating in the purple stripped shirt and the white long sleeve shirt underneath is Kurt Warner. NFL Hall of Fame Quarterback and Northern Iowa graduate.
I’ll go to my grave convinced Webber was on the take in that Michigan game. He did everything possible to screw up. Power forwards never bring the ball up court especially at the end of the game
Yeah he was shady as hell. I'll never forgive him for what he did to Michigan.
High recommend you watch the videos that the office blokes reacted to that explains March madness, it was a very well done video
Think too the round of 64 is played on two days Thursday and Friday. There are 16 games each day and played on four different tv stations. Games start around 12 pm east coast and go until the last game ends around midnight. Four cities have four games back to back to back to back. They also stagger the start times in each city to not have all the crucial ends happening at the same time. And then Friday we repeat it again in four different cities/venues. It’s insane broadcast coverage as it’s literally all day long. Then you have 16 games across Saturday/Sunday too for even more Madness! Then after those four days you go from 64 to 16 teams in what’s known as Sweet 16. Like you’ve commented many NBA guys get known here nationally too.
What's important about a lot of these too is the seeds. A last minute shot is impressive, but it's even more impressive when a 12, 13, 14, 15 or 16 seed team upsets one of the favorites going in
Loyola lost but it was the best run by an 11 seed ever. Another one to look up is the Florida Gulf Coast University run to the Sweet 16. That was amazing as well. These teams gain fans when they upset big teams and everybody starts rooting for them. Its awesome.
I would argue that the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament - a.k.a. "March Madness" - is the American equivalent of the FA Cup. When the college basketball season begins, a few hundred Division 1 universities - a sizable minority of which don't have an American football team - compete in conferences (mini-leagues) to determine who will get into the final 64-team tournament. The tournament itself is single elimination... win or go home. While it is certainly possible for a smaller and/or lesser known school to make a run, it's usually the universities known for basketball (with better resources) that end up in the Final Four and National Championship.
The end of the 2016 National Championship between Villanova and North Carolina (at 5:02 - the clip with the indoor fireworks) is one of the best ever endings to the college basketball season.
Also the crowds ALWAYS cheer for the underdog. Making it more magical.
Like the FA Cup, the NCAA basketball tournaments (both men & women) are single-elimination tournaments. Unlike the FA Cup, there is no frresh draw for each round. Teams are ranked 1-16 in each of 4 regionals, and the brackets are fixed. The winners of each regional move to the Final Four, the winner of which is Division 1 National Champion. The first NCAA Men's championship tournamet was held in 1939. High school basketball is also very popular in the US, especially in the states of Illinois, Indiana & Kentucky. Illinois, where I live, has the oldest high school boy's state basketball tournament, first played in 1908.
March Madness is the playoffs for college basketball! 64 teams
Love March
The reason some of these conferences like the Big 10 and Big 12 have a weird amount of schools is traditionally they had that amount of schools but because of recent realignments they've added or subtracted, and don't want to change their branding. This coming season the Big 12 are adding Cincinnati, Houston. BYU and Central Florida to climb up to 14 teams. They had 12 until Colorado joined the Pac-12 and Nebraska joined the Big 10.
1983 - Championship Game...North Carolina State University vs. The University of Houston . NC State wins on a long, missed shot that was caught in the air by the player's teammate and dunked into the basket at the last second. Nobody could believe it!
...Be sure to fill out your bracket this year after the tournament teams are chosen and before the tournament begins.
At 9:20 you may not understand the significance there, that was the first time a 16 seed EVER beat a 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. A 1 over a 16 was just an automatic win forever until that moment. That's not ranking numbers that's seeding for the Tournament. March Madness is the unofficial name for the NCAA Tournament.
March Madness is single elimination games, yes. The Virginia vs UMBC (University of Maryland - Baltimore County) game was a massive upset. Unlike the FA cup, matchups aren't random but decided in advance so the better your seed going in, the easier your opposition early. There's four regions, each with seeds 1-16, and going into that game, 1 seeds had won all 135 games against 16 seeds dating back to the 1985 tournament which was the first to even have 16 teams in each region. Most of the 1-16 games weren't even close. Only like five or six had been within ten points, and only one went to overtime; meanwhile 40-point blowouts are pretty common. This is partly because the 16 seeds get in by just winning their conference tournament; most of the conferences don't really have a lot of good teams, if any. UMBC, for instance, was ranked outside the top 150 teams entering the tournament and had to pull a couple very surprising upsets to even get to that game after a lackluster regular season with such unpromising results as a loss to conference foe Albany by a score of 83-39. Virginia, meanwhile, was widely favored to win the entire tournament. The thing is, everyone figured a 16 seed would beat a 1 someday. A couple other teams that year were even trendy picks to at least come close. But nobody thought it'd be UMBC and we also always thought it'd be a close game. We'd seen the formula, many times: 1 seed gets out to a slow, uninspired start, 16 seed, excited to even be on the same court, gets out to an early lead, and then the 1 seed starts mounting the comeback. Usually this still resulted in the top seed winning by at least 20. Sometimes the weaker team hung around a little longer, and it was still close with five minutes left. On very rare occasions, it'd even still be in doubt in the final minute. But the thing is, even when UMBC had a twenty point lead at halftime, we were thinking "oh wow, this could be a close one." Virginia was *going*to close the gap. That's just what happens. It's like when San Marino scores the first goal against a top European team, it doesn't mean they'll win, it just means there's a chance the loss will be less severe than usual.
And then something funny happened, which is that nothing happened. UMBC just kept having a big lead. Somewhere around five minutes left in the fourth quarter, everyone started to finally realize that this was it, Virginia wasn't coming back, UMBC was actually going to win. The arena actually got kind of quiet as everyone tried to figure out how to respond to this. And then the final buzzer sounded. I'm not even a UMBC fan; I just root for underdogs. But I'm tearing up writing this comment as I'm finally having the emotions I, and everyone else, didn't have during the game because we were just so completely shocked.
Don't feel too bad for Virginia, though. They won the entire tournament the next year.
Also Loyola didn't go through to the final even; they won the *regional* final to go through to the final four, however, which was itself a massive surprise.
So cool you are doing March Madness. I love college basketball and the tournament is a breeding ground for amazing upsets and never fails to entertain. MIZ.
12:55 Those are my Loyola Ramblers. It's a small school in Rogers Park (Chicago) that wasn't even supposed to compete. They won 3 consecutive games *in the last 10 seconds.* (12:40 13:11 13:32) That's never happened before. Unfortunately they lost in the Final 4. March Madness is the best tourney in US sports bcz it's 1-and-done & you never know what's gonna happen. Your heart is ripped out when your team loses.
Growing up in North Carolina this and the ACC tournament were basically holidays. we’d literally watch basketball in school during them. College bball is massive in North Carolina and home to the “big 4” in Duke, NC State, UNC, and Wake Forest
6:31 this is by far the most famous/infamous shot in college basketball, depending on how you feel about Duke and Kentucky, which are the most storied programs in the sport arguably at any level. This was the 1992 regional final, they had both rolled through their ends of the bracket then had one of the best games ever against each other. Here in Kentucky, to this day, basketball fans wear "Fuck Christian Laettner" shirts every time we play Duke, to signify our hatred of the guy that made this shot lol.
The shot clock is 30 seconds in cbb
9:10 This was the first and only time so far that a 16 seed beat a number 1 seed. Virginia was also the highest rated team in the country heading into the tournament, but one of their best players was injured just prior to the tournament. This Virginia team would win the championship the following year.
The guy crying on Gonzaga was one of the best college bball players ever. He kinda stunk it up in the pros but Morrison was mostly unstoppable at Gonzaga.
Best sporting event on earth in my opinion
At @9:16 that is the first 16 seed to beat a 1 seed. Opening round each of four regions seeded 1-16. The four one seeds are considered the top 4 and the four 16 seeds are usually the bottom 4 in the tournament. Not only did UMBC beat the overall #1 seed they destroyed them. In the history of the tournament only one 16 seed has won. Something like 6 or 7 two seeds have lost to 15 seeds in the history of the tournament.
Good point re pressure at a young age. You should check out the high school football stadiums video.
March madness is a national tournament for NCAA basketball involving the Division 1 teams (which there are 350 of)
Each of these hundreds of schools is broke up into 32 conferences which have around 8-16 teams each.
each conference has its own tournament. All teams are seeded based on where they finished in the conference, and then play one game per day until a champion is crowned. The bigger conferences usually determine this winner by saturday of the second week of march, and the smaller ones have champions crowned a week prior.
When a team wins that conference tournament, they are automatic qualifiers(AQ) for the national tournament. the second Sunday in march (known as Selection Sunday) is when these AQ's are seeded along with 34 at large teams that didn't win their conference tournament but have worthy resumes by getting huge wins (or less bad losses)
the tournament since 1985 has included 64 teams where 4 regions of 16 teams each are slotted.
Each of these regions in the first round have the 16 teams matching up as follows from top to bottom:
1 vs 16
8 vs 9
4 vs 13
5 vs 12;
3 vs 14
6 vs 11
7 vs 10
2 vs 15
From there, 6 rounds of single elimination games take place over the next 3 weeks. That means 2 rounds of play take place in each week (Thursday - Sunday)
(side note) Since 2011 there's been a 68 team field where the last 8 teams play 4 play in games on Tuesday -Wednesday (known as the "First four"). These determine the final 4 spots in the actual tournament (which will be 2 #16 teams as well as either 2 #11 seeds or a #11 and #12 seed )
Yes March madness is best of one you should look at the history of March madness
A great one to watch would be 2005. The Illinois comeback vs Arizona. The full comeback is on UA-cam. Awesome stuff and great reaction video
9:23
The tournament consists of four brackets, each seeded 1-16. Until this game, no 16 seed had ever beaten a 1 seed - much less by over 20 points.
Imagine MK Dons beating Arsenal 3-nil.... That's a rough equivalent of unlikelihood.
UMBC which you asked about is the University of Maryland at Baltimore County which as you probably surmised is one of the extension schools of the University of Maryland but have their own independent athletic departments. And you're correct in the NCAA tournament it's one and done meaning if you lose a game in your regional you're out. And the school you were having trouble pronouncing was the University of Loyola at Chicago which is a Jesuit Catholic insititution in the city of Chicago, Illinois. And the school with the blue jerseys and won when one of their players tossed a lob pass and the big white guy came soaring in and dunked was the FGCU (Florida Gulf Coast University) which is located on the west side of the Florida peninsula at Fort Meyers. The kid from Gonzaga Adam Morrison who you called poor guy because he was crying after losing on a last second shot did play briefly as a professional but couldn't translate his skill in college to the NBA. He was in the league for six years however but never got that much playing time. One thing not in his favor was that he had diabetes which required insulin shots and I'm sure in some way proved a difficult circumstance for him.
I saw several games featuring my favorite team the University of North Carolina which is a blue blood school and has appeared in more final four games than any other school and won six national championships and seven if you count the one they won in the 1920s before the NCAA even existed. UNC is also the third winningest school in the history of college basketball behind Kentucky, and Kansas. It is the alma mater of many great players among them Billy Cunningham, James Worthy, Vince Carter and Michael Jordan whose winning shot in the 1982 national championship game against Georgetown you showed. He was only a freshman then and most times referred to as Mike Jordan, but afterward was called Michael Jordan. My family lived in the city where he grew up Wilmington, NC. After UNC gave him a scholarship my youngest brother went to watch one of his high school games at Laney HS. He said he couldn't figure out which player he was until this kid started making spectacular dunks and numerous other athletic plays which informed him of who he was. I saw him play in college but didn't realize he would become as great a player as he became. And even in his senior year of high school his team only won 19 games and were eliminated in the state playoffs by another high school located in Wilmington which was New Hanover HS who had two players who went on to play professional sports Kenny Gattison who had a substantial career in the NBA and Clyde Simmons who played as a lineman a number of years in the NFL mostly with the Philadephia Eagles.
March madness is so crazy in the US. I used to work for a large company with hundreds of offices across the country and in march one year we got a company wide email from the big boss for everyone to get off the NCAA website and stop checking march madness updates because it was clogging up our computer systems. Lol 😂
You should react more to the MLB and the World Baseball Classic. You Know Great Britain qualified
The tournament will start on March 16. That's a Thursday. They only play half of the games in a round, per day. So, the 16th will be half of the 1st round, and the other half play the next day. Then Saturday will be half of the 2nd round games, with the other half playing on Sunday. Then they don't play again until the next Thursday, when half of the 3rd round games will be played. Then the other half on Friday. Same for the weekend, for round 4. That gets them down to the final 4 teams. They don't play again until the following Saturday, when both games are played. The two winners then play 2 days later, on Monday night.
Check out some of the "One Shining Moment" videos. 1994 is my favorite, because it's the year my team, the Arkansas Razorbacks, won the national championship.
Can we get a top 50 Barry sander reaction Pwease😢
As a Michigan fan glad I got to witness Jordan Poole in college
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Btw, the Loyola Chicago team you saw lost in the final four to my favorite team the Michigan Wolverines
Its called the NCAA Division 1 college basketball tournament. After conference tournaments are finished winners are automatically in. 64 total teams, conferences take about 16 positons.The rest are picked by the selection committee so the last 2-6 teams in are always controversial with others saying itshould be them. Also gambling on the 64 team brackets is gigantic with every office workplace having there own bracket betting pool, and espn creating terms like "bracketology" with many hrs of coverage on the gambling aspect!
Just a few notes cause I love when Europeans help me learn about soccer/football.
Yep, you're right that was Kawhi Leonard that had a shot pretty much identical to that in basically the same spot!
Also at 9:30 when you talk about rank 16 and 1 -- these are tournament seed numbers, and there are 4 regions every year for this final tournament, so there are 4 #16s and 4 #1 seeds. So basically you can read UMBC as #64 for all intents and purposes as Virginia was both one of the four #1 seeds and also the #1 overall seed and #1 team in the country in the traditional, season-long rankings by the media. This was the first and only time a 16 seed had beaten a number 1 seed in the many decades of march madness. UMBC is University of Maryland Baltimore County I think or something like that, no one had heard of them. They weren't only a cinderella, they were a cinderella team no one had heard of.
12:17 nope, that's Jalen Rose. No relation to Derrick. This Michigan team in the yellow is known as the "Fab 5", they were the first team to start all 5 freshmen (year 1s in uni) in college basketball and basically influenced the game a lot by bringing swagger and style that was new to the sport.
12:45 is pretty cool as that is a small time Catholic school that had a very famous nun attend all their games as a sort of media and spiritual mascot, if you will. Was pretty wholesome and they had multiple upsets in the same tournament. Loyola of Chicago is named after Saint Ignatius of Loyola -- Loyola is in Spain. I don't think most Americans know how to pronounce it either unless they happen to be Catholic haha.
I constantly have March madness withdrawal. Best tournament ever
I don't know what kind of magic this tournament has going for it. But, every year there are several of these buzzer-beater wins. That's what the "madness" is about. First round upsets are made by the 12 seeds beating the 5 seeds, most often. A 1 seed has been beaten once, by a 16 seed. And 11 seeds have beaten 3 seeds many times. It's not unusual for a team that most Americans have never heard of (would be 15 or 16 seeds) wins 2-3 games.
Oh, the shot clock, I think it's 30 seconds now. Yeah, it used to 45 in college, which they actually didn't even have a shot clock until the mid-eighties,- the NBA shot clock is much older, and then they changed it to 35, in the 90s, and now it's down to 30 seconds.
You really wanna watch a run. Watch saint peters run along side Loyola Chicago in 2018
Join an online pool for the bracket challenge this year. Good way to learn the and maybe win some money, the underdogs always throw the tourney upside down.
You have to pay attention to the seeds aka the numbers in front of the teams name. Four regions of 16 teams each seeded 1-16. Northern Iowa was 13 seed and Texas was a 4 seed so a huge upset. Hence the word Madness, Cinderella, etc.
My former boss at a high school went to the Villanova/North Carolina game. It was for the National Championship.
At 9:34 I know it seems massive like 1 gets beat by 16 that sounds surprising. But I'll make it even crazier for context so there are 4 sides of 16 teams and so the number 1 seeds are the top 4 teams in college basketball, number 2 seeds are 5th 6th 7th 8th best teams and so on and so forth until 68 teams are filled in. This was like number 2 vs number 68. This is the 1st time a 16 seed has beaten a 1.
I believe Virginia was ranked #1 going into the tournament, and yeah UMBC was way down there in the rankings. Crazy upset.
@@bmil38 I know UMBC was probably lower than 68 but I'm making it easier to understand if your watching it for the 1st time
RE: The schools that you don't recognize...
The tournament gives small schools from small conferences an opportunity to play on a national stage. Most don't get much attention and are seeded low. This leads to amazing underdog stories and upsets.
Virginia losing to UMBC was the first time in HISTORY that the 16 seed beat the #1 seed and not only that but Virginia was the actual #1 team being #1 amongst the other 3 # seeds in the other regions. So the first team in it lost to the last team to make the tournament. Had never happened before…
3:39 that’s not University of Florida. That’s Florida Gulf Coast University. I’m sorry to keep spamming comments, but I love March Madness so much! Another cool thing about the Madness is in college, every single division 1 school competes for the same national title, where football is split up between FBS (Football Bowl Series) and FCS (Football Championship Series). So you have at least one school from each conference, the conference tournament champions, for every conference. From the big conferences, like the Big Ten, Big 12, and SEC, to the little guys, like WAC, Ohio Valley Conference, and Atlantic Sun. You’ll see these tiny schools just shock some of the big dogs
March madness is fun I hope you can react to games this year
yes you were thinking of Kawhi’s shot that knocked the Sixers out of the playoffs a few years back
There’s a really good video on UA-cam that explains the whole thing
It would do ya well to look up last years bracket to get a reference on what it looks like and how the seeding works
look at the numbers to the left of team names... it is their "ranking". Upsets are what make March Madness awesome...
Pretty much every year, there is at least one “Cinderella” team in the tournament, one that no one saw making nearly as far as they do. There has never been all 4 number 1 seeds to make the Final Four.
The Madness of March is about to begin and I'm siked...Rock Chalk
I don't know if anyone has mentioned it in the comments yet but I'll say it anyways. The NCAA basketball tournament is a bunch of neutral sites. The Round of 64 and Round of 32 are played at 8 different locations. The Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight are played at 4 different locations. The Final Four and National Championship game are played at the same one site as well. All of the locations are determined a few years in advance. If you are a 1 or 2 seed in the tournament then the committee deciding where you go will cater to you. You are more likely to get a favorable site for your regional games. If you are a 1 seed as Kansas for example, you would go to Kansas City if that was one of the options.
In the tournament you have 4 different regions w teams seeded 1-16 in each region. 16 plays 1 first round 15 plays 2 and so on…So 11 beating a 6 might not sound like much but its a pretty big gap between the 2…
In America, we have high schools that you would mistake for a college. There’s high school gyms that can seat 15,000. Some states take their sports serious like Texas
The march madness college basketball tournament is, in my opinion, the greatest sports event in America
I am from Indiana and I can tell you the pressure in high-school basketball is intense. Pressure starts at a very young age.
This was an OK video on March Madness. There are better ones though, but good job.
Whether or not a kid is an A list star or just a reserve, one run into the NCAA tournment is something every basketball kid dreams of. An old adage says that " kids cry like babies...pros whine like babies".
The conferences used to make sense and used to have the amount of teams they had in the name…unfortunately about 10 or so years ago a whole bunch of teams switched around….the only conference that switched their name was the PAC 10 to the PAC 12 😂
A reaction to the Best World Baseball Classic Moments would be great!
You need to react to some Duke-UNC Rivalry videos.
First off, you're correct. It was Kawhi Leonard that made a similar shot as the Wisconsin kid. Secondly, there is no such thing as watching too many sports.😁
Gotta keep in mind the context of the teams, too. Some of these incredibly small programs knocking out the big boys and ruining their seasons.
The University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) and Fairleigh Dickenson are the only 16th-seeded teams in March Madness history to upset a #1-seeded team. I hope more 16th-seeded teams win in their first rounds, to show that it isn't impossible. March Madness, and basically the entire college basketball season, is my favorite part of the year. March Madness always gets me in the mood for basketball, and hypes me up whenever I get the time to watch some games with my dad and his friends.
FDU
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There’s roughly 350 college basketball teams. The top 64 make the tournament and it’s single elimination over the course of a few weeks and who ever wins is crowned national champions