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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.
They’ll never read this, they never do
@@antmj2335 LOL, what a salty post. And not true, OB Mike has replied to several of my posts in the past.
@@steveanderson8826haha I’ve scrolled through comment sections in the past and rarely I see a response, but maybe they used to more?
@@steveanderson8826I am salty because I’ve commented before with no response or like from these guys 😂
Yeah, they’re big time now, so maybe too much. I’ve followed these guys since way back (few years) and they are much bigger now. Good for them, they put out a lot of great content.
This year you guys should do brackets and put in a prize pool
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.
That first Thursday-Sunday are the best 4 days in sports
"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.
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.
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!
"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.
I’m convinced while videos play All Dave hears is “doo a dooo da dooo da dododo doo”😂😂
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.
There are always a couple of teams that do better than expected and everyone roots for them.
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.
Fill out brackets even if you know nothing. You can win a lot of money for being lucky. Warren Buffet offered a billion dollars to anyone that's picks a perfect bracket. Which is obviously impossible. A few people have kind of close
March madness is the greatest sporting event on earth in my opinion. It’s so unique
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.
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.
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.
An estimated 70 million brackets are filled out by roughly 40 million Americans according to the Google machine
For context also remember for decades and decades there are people going to these schools who become alumni with a rooting interest. So hypothetically say you graduate from UCLA (a college in LA, California). Well now you'll probably root for them if they make the tournament. And maybe you marry a woman who went to The University of Arizona. So now both of you have a team to root for. Or maybe your daughter gets into stanford and you're proud of her so when they make the tournament you take an interest. Also what if you go to a very small school but on this year they defy the odds and make the tournament, and win a game. A huge upset. Well then now you're the underdog with an interest. And What if they do it with two outstanding freshman who are still gonna be their next year? You might have two or three years of making the tournament in the future.
It’s like the FA cup in the sense that it’s a tournament. But it’s the end of the season, it determines the national championship. It’s more like the playoffs then the FA Cup. It’s how we determine the best team in the NCAA. the winner of march madness is a kin to the premier league champion. It’s also the fact that it’s during the day. The first two rounds on that Thursday and Friday are absolutely magical. 4 games are going on at a time. Think about jamming the entire FA cup into 3 weekends as well, instead of each round being spread out over several months
When he said 100Million brackets will be filled out during March Maddness is NOT an exaggeration.
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
College Basketball is different from College Football. College Football is dominated by several leagues/teams. Probably 10 teams have a chance to win. College Basketball is much more wide open. The major schools still usually win. But the March Madness tournament produces some crazy underdogs.
The ACC tournament in Brooklyn? Argh! It's been played for decades at Greensboro auditorium in North Carolina. Only recently has it been in NY. It's just not the same there. But they've expanded (overexpanded, IMO, the ACC). Weird after watching that tournament for six decades!
The month of March is also considered 'vasectomy season'. What better way to get out of work and sit and watch basketball? Right?
there’s only 150 players in the nba it’s extremely difficult to get a chance to play
There are 15 scholarship spots per team. I don't think walk-ons count towards the total.
I've drifted away from watching reg season as I've aged... other things to attend. BUT... the first few NCAA rounds are glorious... where you do see a "Cinderella" take down/challenge a more renowned team... its just the best. And then you get to see where the Cinderellas, over time, start to become regulars due to the program quality. Richmond Spiders come to mind. SFAustin taking down Duke. Gonzaga... St Peters... it is the true "Everyman" tournament of on any day you might take down a giant. It is my grandfather defeating a golden gloves champ in the back alley.
Shout out to the big sky haha i went to southern utah, we finished 2nd in that table
Look at President Obama’s old brackets, he was pretty accurate!
No there’s easily 100+ million brackets. There’s 330 million people in the US alone. 100 million is still only about 1/3 of the country and that doesn’t include the fact that many people fill out anywhere from 1-20 brackets. It’s not remotely inconceivable that over 1 billion brackets, in a given year, get filled out
The 64 teams play in four locations until they get to the final four teams and they come together in one location.
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The first weekend of March Madness is the best weekend in sports
No, he wasn't really exaggerating. March Madness Pools are HUGE here in the U.S.
People who don't watch any college hoops all season will chip in to their office's pool ("Pool" being everyone who wants to fills out a bracket, or multiple brackets, and see who does the best in their picks.) These are often done for money. ESPN has "Tournament Challenge" each year where prizes such as money, a new car, etc are up for grabs. And millions of entries are put in every year.
The guy was wrong about never had a perfect bracket on espn. It happened on the very first year of bracket challenge.
GREAT vid guys.....annual tradition is to fill out a bracket with your chums and see who gets the most right . Warren Buffet even offered $1 Billion prize for a perfect bracket....nobody even came close . Anyways thnx for the vid .
The strength of the teams are monitored through national polls throughout the season so it’s fairly easy to pick the most qualified teams that do not get automatic bids to the tournament. It is an open enough process that any corruption would be easily identified so therefore it doesn’t happen. Dave seems to want to find the darker side of these things and fortunately while I’m sure it does exist in parts of the game, it doesn’t in the seeding process. Obviously there will be differences of opinion regarding to the seeding of teams including the top teams that weren’t included in the tournament and the bottom teams that were, but I am unfamiliar with any charges of corruption.
Indiana University has as many titles as Duke (Bob Knight and Coach K were Long-time rivals) …
Kentucky University and Ucla have more than Duke.
March Madness is greatest sporting event in America!
Steph Curry, and the rest of the team, took Davidson to the final four!!! Its not mentioned in his highlight vid you reviewed. Lots of good stories like this . Office pools in the US have people bet by filling out a bracket. points are given for wins at each stage with most points for picking the winner. Everybody that joins pays something like $5. You fill out the bracket with your choices. Winner is the guy with most points.
Hey blokes I think you should do a watch along of the opening day of the tournament and the closing day of the tournament that would be fun
There are plenty of athletes who're good at more than one sport. Usually they choose one rather than another, but occassionally you'll have a Bo Jackson or Deion Sanders, who play 2 sports at the professional level. Patrick Mahomes II, quaterback for the KC Chiefs is the son of Patrick Mahomes, Sr, who played professional baseball, & Mahomes II played baseball in school, as well as football.
You guys should do brackets!!
Yall should watch top college basketball rivalries even more fun the derbies you guys would say
The team the beat Aberdeen is called darvel a junior team from Ayrshire
many different locales until Final Four
Virginia double dribbled
Indiana University just Beat #1 seeded Purdue University last weekend (Both Teams are in Indiana).
You don’t have to bet money to fill out a bracket. I fill out many brackets just to see how I do for myself.
Work kind stops during March madness.
4 different locations to start until u get to final 4
But no, he’s no exaggerating about the 100 million plus brackets. It’s a big deal for fans to fill out their brackets ahead of time, and you can even submit your bracket for chances at large cash prizes if your bracket ends up being 100% correct down to the championship team.
The opening round of this tournament is my favorite sporting event ever. Love when the underdogs beat the power houses!
rooting for another Loyola
First two rounds are all about the upsets.
Only if it’s one of my favorite teams.
Opening round its the perfect appetizer for the drawn out, addictive tournament.
Yup. Outside of my main team Villanova, I don't watch much college basketball before the tournament. But those opening days where it's just nonstop high stakes basketball all day for days on end is awesome.
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.
@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.
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.
Or you just live in a sports bar to see all the games on at once.
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.
Literally, every time you guys try to figure things out on your own, you get it all wrong, lol 😆
It’s so irritating in every video 💀
It’s hilarious to listen to them break down something. Only to let the video explained it the right way.
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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.
Agreed. The best rivalry in American sports. But also, fuck Duke!😂
I’m think there is only a few miles between the two schools too
Ohio State vs Michigan is larger and so is Alabama vs LSU but Duke and UNC is probably 3rd.
Only in NC. Not in the nation.
@@LeeAkrish I'd disagree
100 million was literally how many brackets are filled out. You guys are sleeping on how crazy Americans are for college sports lol
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.
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.
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 guy explaining March Madness has a great voice.
I could listen to him all day!
He's a Football Manager streamer on Twitch. Fun guy. Awesome youtube vids too 👍
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.
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.
My school never did them lmao neither did my church or work rip
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.
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 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.
that timeout he called accident screwed up their chance to move on.
They made the finals in 1992, not '91. They lost to Duke. 1991 was Duke over Kansas.
@@amycarcaterra8177 You're thinking of Chris Webber's TO in the 1993 finals vs North Carolina. He called a TO when Michigan didn't have any left, leading to technical free throws for UNC, which extended their lead near the end of the game.
howard was one now he the head of michigan basketball men's team. theire is an espn documentary.
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.
Nope. The first two rounds play in 8 locations. The next two rounds play in four additional locations with the final four being played in a 13tg location.
You guys are AMAZING THANK YOU! Great video !!
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
NO 100 million Brackets is low!!
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 😂😂😂
FYI college football has 130 teams from 10 conferences.
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)
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.
It’s a very complicated system but if you follow a single season you’ll begin to understand it very quickly.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Warren Buffet once offered a billion dollars to anyone who could predict a perfect bracket.
22:45 the games are not in the same location. logistically the united states is far too big for that and there are too many teams to host in the same place. the games are separated by region. every game taking place between teams in the east region are gonna be playing in the same 1 or 2 stadiums. same for the rest of the regions. as rounds go by the amount of teams shrink obviously and eventually all the games are hosted in the same place but I'm not sure when the is exactly.
There is a hundred million brackets bet on every year. Great reaction guys.
There is a spike in vasectomy appointments just before the march madness tournament.
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.
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).
rhe money goes to non-income sports like womens, crew, swimming, wrestling... etc...
100 million brackets is not an exaggeration. Some fill out 2 or 3
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
Watching y’all talk about basketball is very cringey
There’s 12 cities that host the tournament. Like 8 of the for the first 2 rounds
This is the most exciting time in all of sports! Better than the superbowl Fifa, and baseball. Definitely watch the first weekend. 100 million brackets are filled out. Its not possibilities of outcomes. It's a completed form before the tournament begins. Great!
So American lmao
Duke University is located only 10 miles from North Carolina University. You guys should do a video on the history of the rivalry
The best time of the year for us college basketball fans
I’m not even a big college basketball fan and I still love March madness.
@@Alex-kd5xc I only said that because I know there are a select few who don’t like college basketball.
You guys should react to the best buzzer beaters and/or upsets in March Madness history.
There's nothing like NC State's 1983 Cardiac Kids and Coach Jimmy Valvano's run to the national title. I'm a lifelong Tar Heels fan and Lorenzo Charles's game-winning shot still makes me cry. The Cinderella Story of 20th Century sports.
y´all should watch best of march madness
Only 60 people get drafted into the NBA every year and not all are from college (but most are). You use to be able to enter right out of high school (kobe, lebron, garnett etc) but now the NBA requires you to be 1 year removed, so most go to college.
There is a big trend though for kids to just play 1 year overseas to make money if they think they have NBA potential but it's a big risk unless you're projected to be a top tier pick.
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.
The cool teachers would bring their TVs or radios to school for the games. I carried a transistor radio and ran a long earphone wire under my long hair and down my sleeve.
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.
Davidson is small, but has a long history of good teams.