Basketball Bracket Definition

Basketball brackets are a great way to keep track of tournament teams throughout all levels of play. The NCAA Basketball Tournament every March has made basketball brackets incredibly popular.

  1. Significance

    • Brackets are an easy way to keep track of tournament teams. You can easily tell which teams will meet by simply looking at specific sections of the bracket.

    Types

    • There are brackets that are single elimination, double elimination and sometimes even more than double. Double-elimination brackets feature winners' and losers' brackets.

    Size

    • Brackets can be of any size, depending on how many teams are in the tournament. Typically, they are made to hold either four, eight, 16, 32 or any other multiple of an even number of teams.

    NCAA Bracket

    • The NCAA Division I basketball tournament is held every March. The field is composed of 65 teams, with seeds 64 and 65 playing the first game to advance to complete the symmetrical bracket of 64.

    Fans Brackets

    • Throughout the NCAA tournament, many fans and even non-fans enjoy predicting the results by filling out a bracket before the tournament begins. Often, people enter contests to see who can predict the bracket most accurately.