College men’s basketball is one of the most unique college sports in how it ends up determining who will win the NCAA championship for the season every year. Instead of simply having the top two ranked teams at the end of the normal season play each other and determine a winner that way, college basketball uses a system most commonly known as March Madness. In this system schools are assigned to play against each other in a bracket set up. After each game, the losing team is eliminated from the bracket and the winning team moves on to the next round. This allows a team that might not have been great during the regular reason to have a chance at making it all the way and winning the championship. The key word here is “allows.” It isn’t often that a team that wasn’t ranked or wasn’t ranked very high ends up winning the championship, but there’s always the possibility.

College students eagerly anticipate March Madness all through the regular season. Students agree that it’s a lot of fun to watch your team play and win during the regular season, but during March Madness it’s so much better. During March Madness there is more pressure on the team, so if the team wins and they advance on to the next round that puts them one step closer at potentially winning. No college student likes to see their team lose during March Madness. In fact, in the past some schools have had riots when their men’s basketball team lost in one of the last few rounds, such as VCU losing in the Final Four round last season.

Another reason that college student like March Madness so much is because it lasts through the whole month of March. For college football, the top two teams compete in the championship game and then it’s determined who the winner is, along with the bowl games that determine who the winner is of a specific bowl game. All of these games are usually right after New Years. These games don’t normally go more than a week past New Years. That’s what makes March Madness so great. There are games going on well past the end of the regular season. This year’s March Madness is predicted to be one of the best according to some students at OSU. Students have said that because there has been such a change in the past few weeks in the top ten teams and where they are ranked that March Madness will be something you won’t want to miss. March Madness is coming up right around the corner and it’s anyone’s guess as for who is going to win.