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In response to "I obviously don't know anything about college basketball, but why are there brackets, and a bunch of games still tbd?" by JaxSean

Play in games (or as they will aggravatingly call it, the first round)

Posted by Tim (aka othertim) Mar 16 '15, 19:35

Something like 10 years ago they made the two worst team play each other on Tuesday for the right to play the best #1 team. Then a few years later I think they added a second game to earn the 16th seed.

Then in 2011 they decided that the last four at-large (non-automatic qualifier) selections would play for the right to get an 11 seed in the main draw. So now you have a 68 team tournament in which 60 of the teams get first round byes.

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I thought they were going to stop doing that this year. -- nm - Reagen Mar 16, 19:52 2
- The bracket at the NCAA website still refers to the Thursday/Friday games as the second round. -- nm - Dano Mar 16, 19:54 1
  - urge to kill, rising. -- nm - Tim Mar 16, 19:59
Odd. Thanks. -- nm - JaxSean Mar 16, 19:46 2
- It's ridiculous and should go away. -- nm - Krusty Mar 16, 21:52
- The first year VCU got one of those spots and went all the way to the Final Four, but it's been kinda whatever since. -- nm - Tim Mar 16, 19:52

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