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When he talked about 100 Million brackets, I think he was referring to how many brackets are filled out by fans, either for betting purposes, or just for fun, to see if they can predict the winners. You guys should DEFINITELY fill out a bracket for the tourney this year. Even if you know NOTHING about college basketball, it doesn't matter, you can still do pretty well. The upsets are amazing, like when a 14 seed beats a 3 seed in the opening round, its just MADNESS. Also, for many Americans, those first couple of days of the tournament, are great days to take off of work, sit in a pub or sports bar, and just enjoy as many games as possible on all the screens while enjoying a frosty beverage. Good times all around.

You might find it funny that March has become "vasectomy season" in the U.S. Urologists report a 30-50% increase in scheduled vasectomies during March Madness and some are now advertising to get men in during the tournament. The idea is, it gives men a perfect excuse to sit around for days in front of the TV while they recover and their wives won't nag them about watching so much basketball when they got the vasectomy partially for their wives' convenience.

The opening round of this tournament is my favorite sporting event ever. Love when the underdogs beat the power houses!

@16:35 Mike nails it. He's spot on that one conference's number 3 is another conference's number 1, had they competed in that conference. Kind of like sparring partners.

Literally, every time you guys try to figure things out on your own, you get it all wrong, lol 😆

Each section of the bracket (1-16) plays in a different location/region. So Thursday has 4 games each in 4 locations. Same on Friday. Saturday and Sunday have 2 games each in 4 locations. Start times are staggered throughout the different regions to maximize the TV watching experience.

This year you guys should do brackets and put in a prize pool

Games are all played at a neutral site. Usually in professional sports arenas. 14 different locations when all is said and done. Final 4 and championship final played in an indoor football stadium. This year in Houston. Many business offices throughout the U.S. run office pools with brackets. There are always upsets. The first round is crazy. Living on the West Coast I can watch games from 9:00 am to 10:00 pm. For the first few weekends there are games going on at the same time on 4 different channels so you can jump around although all networks show the others scores at the top of the screen. So, you can see if there is a more competitive game going on so can switch to that game.

You guys should fill out brackets this year and follow March Madness. You organize a pool for you and all your followers on any number of online sites that organize bracket pools. It would be a fun way for you three to interact with your online followers.

The guy explaining March Madness has a great voice.

By Brackets he means that people across the US fill out which teams are going to win each and every tournament game up to the winner. So my bracket might have different conclusions to every game compared to your bracket etc. It's basically picking the winners of the games.

I used to work for a very large company, we had hundreds of offices across the country. One particular march we received a company wide email from the Big Boss telling everyone to get off the NCAA website because it was clogging up our computer systems. Lol 😂😂😂

That first Thursday-Sunday are the best 4 days in sports

I remember filling out a brackets in middle school. Our teachers would hand out brackets for students to fill out. My school would give out prizes to kids who got the most correct. March Madness is definitely a big deal.

Duke is in North Carolina. Duke vs UNC is quite possibly the biggest rivalry in American sports. The player who went #1 last year from Duke was Paulo Banchero. 100 million brackets is not an exaggeration. Everybody fills out tournament brackets, sometimes for betting, sometimes just for fun. March madness videos would be great for reactions.

The 64 teams play at 4 locations . Divided into 16 team pods . The winners of those 4 pods/locations play in the final 4 (semi-final) and then the Natty, national championship.

March Madness is something you definitely need to experience with some experienced Americans who love basketball. Just sitting and watching it. The first 2 days of the actual tournament (Thursday and Friday), all the games are broadcast on 4 channels. They broadcast 8 full length games per day on each channel. There are always 4-6 games happening at the same time. A lot of people take the first 2 days of the tournament off work.

The first two rounds are played in eight locations around the country. That means in the first round they’re eight teams playing in four games in each location. The second round are the winners of the first round so that there are four teams playing in two games at the same location that the first round was played. The third and fourth rounds go to different locations and there are just four of them. The third round is referred to as the Sweet 16 and the fourth round is referred to as the elite eight. These rounds were intended to represent the four major regions of the country, the east, the west, the Midwest, and the south. Assignment to these regions doesn’t necessarily follow any rhyme nor reason but it’s only an excuse to name the brackets. The winners of those four regional tournaments then advance to the final four with the winner of that tournament declared the national champion.

To better understand the competitive levels of the 68 teams in the tournament. Here's a comparison: -All teams in the EPL and Championship (44) -Top half of League One (12) -Top 8 teams in League 2 -Top 2 teams in the Conference -Top team in National League North & National League South (2)

Another reason he didn't mention why that 100+ million bracket is the "big" number (you'll see why it's actually much MUCH bigger) is because the tournament it's is so "pervasive" in American culture. Everywhere you go people are doing it. The bar. Your office. Your church. Your group with the lads. Every school/classroom does it from primary through your whole school career. EVERYONE that has grown up American in the past 30-40 years has paid attention to a tournament seriously at least once in their life. That girly girl that would never have watched a physical activity in her entire life are checking scores and channel flipping just like the dweeb is at 6-7-8 years old because their is a $50 Toys R Us gift card or pizza party for the most accurate class schoolwide. Your husband will bring home cases of craft beer from his garage workmate pool, you'll win Chilli's gift cards from your supermarket's bracket, and your kids will be bringing home cases of chocolate bars because their friggin croquet team is doing a bracket. It's EVERYWHERE. 100+ million is just online brackets filled out in online forms. Not paper brackets, forum discussions, informal betting, not to mention the old school Vegas betting.

Duke is in Durham NC, University of North Carolina is in Chapel Hill, NC, and North Carolina State is in Raleigh, NC, all are in the ACC and they are just a few miles from each other in what is called the research triangle. So they are big rivals.

"100 Million Brackets" refers to the number of sheets where people filled out a bracket with who they think will win each game in March Madness down to the tournament winner. It is typically betting, but sometimes for fun.

You guys are AMAZING THANK YOU! Great video !!

"a few years ago, back in the eighties" gave me a chuckle.. little after 18 minutes

the Tournament commitee has done a great job with not being corrupt in their picks over the years

The brackets comment referred to betting pools where people put money up for à cash prize and each fill out the bracket as they predict the winners. This is VERY big in the US. People whove never seen a game fill out brackets for money and bragging rights. It's an extremely popular office pool game every march. All the sports internet sites offer brackets and prizes as well. I think it's the largest gambling event in us every year, as people who don't normally watch sports or gamble will fill out brackets and participate in office pools. Cindy in accounting might win by picking teams based on uniform color. Lol I'm kind of shocked Daz has never participated in that.

There are fake websites that make it look like you are working with a boss button that pulls of pie graphs and spreadsheets but then when you exit and the boss leaves it’s just streaming March madness haha. Nothing gets done in school or work when March madness starts

You guys would love march madness one of the best sporting events in the USA the bracket has a scoring system and there is a lot of office pools or friendly pools where everyone throws in 5 or 10 dollars and usually first wins all the money and second gets there money back or something along those lines

It’s a very complicated system but if you follow a single season you’ll begin to understand it very quickly.

You guys should check out the 'Fab Five'. A group of five freshmen that went all the way to the College finals in 91. One of the greatest final ever.

The opening Thursday and Friday of the tournament is the greatest sports event in the world. 32 games starting at noon on Thursday until midnight. Then again on Friday. Then the second on Sat/Sun. 4 days of beer, food, ball, and not working. It's our greatest holiday.

Some years I’ll take vacation from work for the first two days of the tournament and spend all day watching the craziness. It’s awesome.

The first Thursday and Friday of the tournament are two of the most fun days of the year. Work productivity shuts down.

locations where the games are played are printed on the blank brackets ( some, not all) or info sheets of the NCAA Tournament ,ESPN bracket, CBS bracket, etc,etc

When he said hundreds of millions fill out brackets. He really means hundreds of millions of folks are filling out their "bracket" and playing in pools.

Warren Buffet once offered a billion dollars to anyone who could predict a perfect bracket.

There is a hundred million brackets bet on every year. Great reaction guys.

Another unsaid thing is that no one except paid experts have time to watch every conference.. so for many fans nationally, it'll be the first time you've watched many teams all year. Eg someone watching Duke doesn't watch many west Coast teams.. Or an Oregon fan can't watch North Carolina since they will probably still be at work due to time zones and when these games are played. So it's a fun way to see matching or teams you'd usually never see.

When he says 100 million brackets, he literally means people have filled out 100 million brackets. As far as possible combinations for any one bracket, there are 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 possible combinations for the 64 team tounament. That's a lot more than 100 million.

It is also popular in the work place to pay a small amount and pick the final four, and then the winner and win the pot (or split it).

In the USA, the teams that typically dominate in basketball for college are Duke, UNC, Kentucky, Kansas and Gonzaga. For american football it’s usually Georgia, Ohio State, Michigan and LSU. The powerhouse schools for baseball are typically Vanderbilt, Auburn, Mississippi State, Clemson and Oklahoma.

100 million was literally how many brackets are filled out. You guys are sleeping on how crazy Americans are for college sports lol

"Filling out the brackets" refers to the millions of people betting by trying to choose which teams will win each game up until the last team remains as the champion. Each person betting gets a bracket showing all of the games, and he must choose the winners. Whoever chooses the most winners wins the betting competition.

Brackets are your picks for all the games and yes people bet on them. Most of the action goes down in March hence March madness. The sky blue NC team is UNC Chapel Hill. Edit: most of these kids don’t go to the NBA or look to go into the NBA they may just want to play college basketball at a high level

You guys should react to the best buzzer beaters and/or upsets in March Madness history.

March Madness makes for great storylines. I’ve been to a Final Four semi final and final, and there’s nothing like it. It’s such a fun time of year.

yall were talking about how there's 5,000 or so kids in the NCAA playing basketball. Thats just division one there's 3 divisions I believe. you also should take into consideration all the kids who played in highschool with dreams of playing in the NBA that didn't get any offers to play in college. Plus the kids who wanted to play in highschool but weren't even good enough for that. the percentages of athletes who actually make it to the professional game are absolutely mind boggling. its like winning the lottery twice.

The games are played in different cities. It starts in 6 cities to start the tournament , then it goes down to 4 cities, then 2 etc. The final 4 is played in the same city.

FYI college football has 130 teams from 10 conferences.

So glad I didn't miss this video! Dave has been referencing this video for a few days. I thought it was a straight to Patreon video!

There are always a couple of teams that do better than expected and everyone roots for them.

I’m convinced while videos play All Dave hears is “doo a dooo da dooo da dododo doo”😂😂

The 100 Million comment is actually about all of the Office Pool's that people participate in. Also, most of the Major Sports Websites (ESPN, CBS, etc) will have online free tournaments. When you do a Bracket, you have to guess the winner all the way to the final tournament. So odds of winning are not that good.

Its so big I used to skip school to waych the first 2 days of the tourney. They start at like 9am in the first rd bc they have so many games to cover. Also, in high school when I did go to school on day 1 a few teachers would actually have one of the games on the tv for us to keep track of.

13:39 the brackets he was talking about was related to betting. You can fill out a bracket basically predicting what you thinks gonna happen throughout the entire tournament. once you figure out whos playing and what the seeding is of course. its a game to see if anyone can fill out a perfect bracket. its never been done before to my knowledge people have come close though. president Obama used to host an annual march madness bracket show, where he would fill out his march madness bracket on live television lmao. there's a whole science dedicated to this called "bracketology" its a big thing in America every year. "will someone finally fill out a perfect bracket?" that's why there's 100 million of them every year or so like he said. still might be an exaggeration tho.

Y'all should react to some of the "One Shining Moment" videos. My favorite is obviously from 1994 when my home-state team of the Arkansas Razorbacks won it all.

Players in college cannot be paid by their college or university institution but a recent change in the rules allow for players to be renumerated for their NIL which stands for name, image, and likeness. This means a player can sell their name, image, or likeness for advertising purposes or for use on merchandise.

Duke is in Durham, NC which is also nearby Chapel Hill which is where UNC is located. Also nearby is NC State. Those 3 are colloquially known as Tobacco Road. Also down the road past Greensboro is Wake Forest located in Winston-Salem, N.C. and all four are in the ACC but there are also several other mid-majors nearby. If y'all ever want to watch a good doc that does a solid job of explaining the world of Duke basketball while also covering March Madness and the cultural obsession with it, I highly recommend watching I Hate Christian Laettner, an ESPN 30 for 30 documentary. It specifically focuses on Laettner who was one of the best college players of all time, but it really gives great insight into that world. Super entertaining, it has great footage of some classic NCAA games, and as an added bonus, it's narrated by Rob Lowe. And as always, loved the vid.

The games are played at regional neutral venues somewhat near the two teams so the fans can go. The exception was at the height of the Covid pandemic when all the games were played in Indianapolis, Indiana. That city was selected because of it having enough courts to have 4 games a day. Between the professional, multiple college, and even two large high school courts and since no fans were allowed the seating capacity wasn't an issue.

Duke and North Carolina are both in my state of North Carolina... Both schools are "powerhouse schools" and are located quite close to each other. The rivalry between the two is has historically been a huge deal in college basketball for the last century.

There is a spike in vasectomy appointments just before the march madness tournament.

He literally means 100 million attempts at filling out the what will be the correct bracket are made each year by people across the country. The permutations for the chance of filling out a perfect bracket is 1 in 2^63 which is an astronomically large number. Each conference tournament is played over the course of 4-5 days in one location. Once the tournament starts the games are played at neutral sites all across the country. The higher ranked seeds, get a game located closer to where they are from but there are multiple games being held at that location with fans from across the country. So for example one of the neutral site cities hosting a set of games may be Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The University of Kansas, which is typically one of the top 10 teams each year will probably be playing their first two games at that location. Often they end up playing in cities within a 4 hour drive from their school like Kansas City, Tulsa, Omaha, or Oklahoma City.

100 million brackets means that 100 million people fill out a bracket. In just about every job site, people fill out a bracket, pays a fee, and the person who correctly guessed the most game winners wins the money.

The reason some only get one team in is because the best teams are usually in the "power" confrences so usually 60 % of the teams will come from those 6 of the 32 confrences.

The sports books in Las Vegas the first weekend of play are insane.

Chattanooga was the only 13 seed that made the sweet 16 in the 1997 NCAA tournament averaging 80 pts a game out those 3 rounds.

Mike nailed it - at large bids are the BEST 32 teams that DONT get an automatic bid. Yes, a team that finishes 2nd in a smaller conference might have a good record, but that doesn't mean they're better than the #5 team from a major conference. Put that small conference team in the ACC and they would lose a bunch more games than UNC. Generally, the smallest leagues only get 1 team in the tournament, and that's the automatic bid for winning the conference title. What is tough is sometimes you'll have one of those small conference teams that's been good all year long and has dominated almost everyone they've played, but they get upset in their conference tournament and all the sudden their automatic bid is gone because of one bad game, and because they're in such a small conference, they may not get selected for one if the remaining at-large bids. It happens somewhat regularly. A few years back there was a team that went like 30-4 in the regular season, but they got upset in their conference tournament, and the team that beat them got the automatic bid, and their record was like 14-16 on the year. But they got to go because that's the rules of how they select. You have to win your conference tournament if you want a GUARANTEED spot. If you don't, then you have to sweat it out and see if you get picked as an at-large. So it is possible that you could not win a game all year long and then come your conference tournament, you catch fire and win a handful of games and make the NCAA tournament over all the other teams in your league that you've lost to all year. Have to win your conference tournament, especially in smaller leagues. That's the golden rule.

Right after the Super Bowl, sports fans start concentrating on college basketball and the NFL Draft. I usually do 4 brackets. I submit a very important bracket with in a group of friends. I came very close to winning, but ended up 3rd. Frankly, I never want to be last. It’s great for some teams to even get invited. I root for all the schools in Philly and we include Villanova. There’s sports history associated with the Big Five, the Big East, and the Palestra. The tournament is called The Big Dance. Teams must survive and advance.🏀 There’s the Sweet Sixteen. Elite Eight, & Final Four.

On the Steph Curry side, he did go to one of those smaller schools. The Tourney really exposed him to fans, but he was still one of the top scorers already.

March madness is the greatest sporting event on earth in my opinion. It’s so unique

March Madness is so huge that they would give us brackets to fill out in school.......... They would pause the curriculum just for basketball. Craziness.

Villanova loss and the gal played her flute in tears while playing on

Everyone fills out their "bracket." They pick every game up to the championship. Then each "pool" determines a winner. There are different ways to score it

The Final Four will be in Houston this year. This will be the 3rd Final Four Ive volunteered to work in. Its always a fun time in the host city where its held.

It gets crazy. Office people make brackets and watch at work. The President has a bracket to see how his teams are doing. It's nuts.

The best time of the year for us college basketball fans

These colleges also have a huge alumni following. People actually take time off of work to go to these games during march madness, it's like a mini vacation. As suggested by many people in the comments consider watching selection Sunday.

I take off work…1st round Basketball (on 4 channels) from 12pm-12am….Its the highlight of every year

Mike gets it. Tournament is awesome because of the David vs Goliath/Cinderella teams. Few years ago, my Wichita State Shockers made it to the Final Four for the first time in decades.

The tournament was my favorite sporting event as a kid. I'd skip school to watch games. Now it's just the NFL unless my college makes the tournament.

And one thing that happened a few years ago was a 16 seed beat a 1 seed for the first time in history. The NCAA tournament wasn't always the biggest thing in town, it used to be the NIT tournament. The NIT still goes on, but it doesn't have the coverage March Madness has now. As for all of the games they happen in regional cities. They don't play all of the rounds of games in one city. That really doesn't happen until the Final Four. The First Four takes place in Dayton, Oh and then those teams travel to the region where their bracket is.

A lot of offices or friends have bracket challenges. Some for fun, some for money. My friends and I put in $20 each and the bracket with the best winning percentages wins the cash.

The super conferences may send numerous teams that have beaten each other up all season. It usually takes a minimum of 20 wins out of maybe 32 games to qualify for the NCAA tournament. Or a top 25 ranking.

And get this blokes…Since its inception, there’s only ever been one 16 seed to knock of a 1 seed in the opening round of March Madness. That was in 2018 when 16 seed UMBC (University of Maryland Baltimore County) beat 1 seed Virginia, 74-54.

There are only 60 draft picks in the NBA Draft each year. Around 95% of college players never play professionally. Championship teams often only see two or three players go on to play in the NBA.

This year my Tennessee Vols we’re ranked #1 in football, #1 in baseball and were #1 in basketball all at some point during 2022

An estimated 70 million brackets are filled out by roughly 40 million Americans according to the Google machine

-No exaggeration, not all brackets are for betting purposes, some are for fun or office pools. Some people do multiple brackets. -The tourney is about money. NO mid to lower tier conference is going to get more than one bid unless it's an anomaly. The rest that don't get a bid go to the NIT tourney. -Each one of the 4 brackets play in different regions of the country. When you hit the sweet 16, then they all come together in one spot. -Unless you make the basket during the foul, and you only get one shot called an "And 1".... -About 2 or 3 players of great team at most will be drafted or picked up. A good majority of the rest are going to be the next bag boys and lawyers of the world. Some may extend playing by going to another country, but even that doesn't last long...

7:05 “The ACC which covers teams on the east coast” those were simpler times 😢

The NCAA March Madness bracket is a bracket containing all 64 teams who earn a spot in the tournament. He’s probably not exaggerating when he says 100 million are filled out. Many people fill out the brackets choosing winners in each matchup, and the ultimate winner and a score (at least my office adds a score so it’s a tie, the score is the tie breaker. Points are awarded for each round winner. Someone else here can probably do a better job describing it but it’s a big deal here and the first round, with so many games going on, and upsets, is exciting.

No big school wanted give Curry a Scholarship. Even the school his dad went to said he can basically come in and tryout.

11:09 every college has a reserve team/ practice squad team/ freshman squad/ development team. whatever u wanna call it. but yes aside from the 15 players that sit on the bench or play in the games there is another reserve team.

No, there are four locations for the 64 teams. An arena is picked for each region; North, South, East and West. When each region is done and they are down to the final four teams, then they go to one location.

UCLA and USC ( two colleges in California) just joined the Big Ten Conference so that's going to be two Western teams in the Big Ten now.

Fun fact: Thousands of guys in the US will get their nuts snipped this time of year so they can sit at home and watch the games while recovering. Doctors even advertise for it.

There’s 12 cities that host the tournament. Like 8 of the for the first 2 rounds

The first two weeks of the tournament are played in many different locations spread across the US. Only the Final Four teams play in the same city. There are two semifinal games on Saturday and the championship is two days later on Monday night. When you bet on games you just bet on one game. You can bet on who you think will be the champion before the tournament starts but most bettors don't do that because there are always a lot of upsets. The first two days of the tournament are the biggest betting days of the year because there are 32 games. The 100 million brackets he mentioned are not the amount of bets people make. The brackets are just filled out by people on websites like ESPN. It is free so people will fill out many different brackets and pick different winners. There are no prizes on those websites. Usually people at work or school will fill out brackets and put in 5 or 10 dollars each. The person who gets the most games correct will get the cash at the end.

100 Million brakets means fans filled out 100 million brackets in office pool, fan pools, online guessing apps etc. Yes you can gamble on them but people just fill it out just to guess same as a world cup bracket.

It's crazy when your chest hair goes up and into your neck beard

What he meant by filling brackets is that people like you and me go online to that bracket and fill it out to try to predict the winners, so it’s just 100 million different bracket predictions made by people. There are actually over 1 and 1 trillion to getting a perfect bracket. People usually fill out these brackets for this big contest espn does for 1 million dollars and usually no one ever gets a perfect bracket because it’s so impossible. To me 1 million isn’t enough lmaoo