The madness is finally here. After a thrilling 2024-25 college basketball season, the tournament is now finalized as 68 teams have a chance to win one of the greatest tournaments ever. One of the things that makes this tournament so great is the unpredictability of it. No games are guaranteed for anyone as some of the best teams in the nation have lost in the first round. This tournament gives every team who made it a chance for glory, and every player a chance to get noticed as they are now on the big stage with millions of people watching. 

   In addition to this, March Madness is also one of the most viewed tournaments in the United States. Reaching numbers that are larger than most professional sports playoff games. March Madness is also so popular that its interest is able to attract people who don’t ever watch college basketball. 

   One of the most exciting things that comes with this tournament is the bracket challenges. Some people spend hours making many brackets with the hope of achieving the perfect bracket. The perfect bracket has never been completed in all the years of march madness. To go along with the unpredictability, there is a 1 in 9.2 quintillion of successfully predicting every game successfully in this tournament. The impossible odds makes it even more exciting as people every year hope to be the one to break this trend. 

   March Madness is one of the most exciting times in sports. The first games start on Thursday, March 20th. This year’s bracket seems to entail a very exciting yet another unpredictable tournament. Good luck to everyone and maybe this year somebody will finally have a perfect bracket.