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What does the term 'March Madness' refer to?

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What does the term 'March Madness' refer to?
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March Madness is a popular colloquial term for the process of deciding the annual champion of NCAA collegiate basketball in the United States. . The NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship is held each spring featuring 65 of the top college basketball teams in the United States. The 20-day tournament, colloquially known as "March Madness" or the Big Dance, has become one of the country's most prominent sports events.
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March madness is the term given to the college basketball season ending tournament. It's played mainly in March and decides the champion.
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long, long ago, when there were still hares in the fields, in March when the sap began to rise the hares would start chasing each other around the fields in their peculiar mating rituals, hence the expression "mad as a march hare".
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NCAA post-season basketball tournament.
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college basketball finals
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NCAA Men's basketball tournament, a knockout tournament with 64+ teams (sometimes, there's one extra team who tries to "play in" to the final 64). It has 4 regional brackets and the finalist of each region plays in the Final Four for the national championship. There is also a woman's basketball tournament which is getting increasingly popular, usually held right after the men's tournament is over.
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finals leading up the the ncaa college basketball championship. like the playoffs
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