March Madness Concepts
Learn about basics March Madness concepts before integrating.
Understanding the tournament progression, and how our API reflects these changes, is important in building your bracket.
Tournament Rounds
Here's how the March Madness tournament is structured:
- First Four: A preliminary round where eight of the lowest-seeded teams compete to fill the final spots in the main bracket.
- First Round: The opening round of the tournament where 64 teams compete to advance to the next stage.
- Second Round: Teams that won in the first round face off to narrow the field down to 32.
- Sweet Sixteen: The remaining 16 teams compete, with the winners moving on to the regional semifinals.
- Elite Eight: The winners from the Sweet Sixteen battle to determine who advances to the national semifinals.
- Final Four: The last four teams play to decide the two finalists of the national championship.
- National Championship: The concluding game where the two Final Four winners compete for the NCAA tournament title.
What is Seeding?
The process of entering or "planting" contestants on the brackets to start the tournament is referred to as seeding the tournament. When the bracket has been drawn and all the contestants have been assigned their starting position, the bracket can be said to have been "seeded."
This image displays a single quadrant of an NCAA Women's Basketball bracket, demonstrating how seeds are typically assigned to bracket positions.
What are Quadrants?
Quadrants refer to the four sections of the tournament bracket. Each quadrant represents a different region of the tournament, named after the following regions, East, West, South, Midwest. These quadrants help organize the 68 teams into manageable sections for the competition, with each section hosting its own set of games until a winner emerges to advance to the Final Four, representing their respective quadrant.
In the Tournament Summary endpoint, each region has a rank value, which is populated at the end of Selection Sunday. The region's position in the bracket is based on that rank value.
- For instance, the highest-ranked quadrant, which contains the number one overall seed, will be placed in the upper left of the bracket.
- Conversely, the quadrant with the second-highest overall seed will be located in the upper right.
- The first quadrant will face the winner of the fourth quadrant, which is on the left side of the bracket.
- Similarly, the second and third quadrants, positioned on the right side of the bracket, will compete against each other.
See the code examples below.
- Top Left Quadrant: Regional Rank = 1, East Regional in the example below
- Bottom Left Quadrant: Regional Rank = 4, West Regional in the example below
- Top Right Quadrant: Regional Rank = 2, South Regional in the example below
- Bottom Right Quadrant: Regional Rank = 3, Midwest Regional in the example below
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"name": "Sample NCAA Tournament",
"location": "Glendale, AZ, USA",
"status": "scheduled",
"start_date": "2024-03-19",
"end_date": "2024-04-08",
"league": {
"id": "cd4268ee-07aa-4c4d-a435-ec44ad2c76cb",
"name": "NCAA MEN",
"alias": "NCAAM"
},
"season": {
"id": "3dcf4c11-e7f8-4996-a34d-49069d14d465",
"year": 2023,
"type": "PST"
},
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"name": "South Regional",
"location": "Dallas, TX, USA",
"rank": 2,
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},
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},
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},
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},
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},
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},
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},
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},
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},
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},
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<team id="db6e1cab-3fa3-4a93-a673-8b2a358ff4bf" name="Baylor Bears" market="Baylor" seed="3"/>
<team id="80a19b57-d6ab-4bee-934f-33a72c2e958a" name="Colgate Raiders" market="Colgate" seed="14"/>
<team id="e9ca48b2-00ba-41c0-a02b-6885a2da1ff1" name="North Carolina Tar Heels" market="North Carolina" seed="1"/>
<team id="9b166a3f-e64b-4825-bb6b-92c6f0418263" name="Arizona Wildcats" market="Arizona" seed="2"/>
<team id="62a73b4a-e281-4483-a1f8-f1160a18e456" name="Nevada Wolf Pack" market="Nevada" seed="10"/>
<team id="c2104cdc-c83d-40d2-a3cd-df986e29f5d3" name="Alabama Crimson Tide" market="Alabama" seed="4"/>
<team id="1b1977ec-b32f-4ce3-95a4-d07bab4816cd" name="New Mexico Lobos" market="New Mexico" seed="11"/>
<team id="dcf5c2e7-c227-4c20-af26-715d5f859412" name="Clemson Tigers" market="Clemson" seed="6"/>
<team id="22fbe5dc-c6db-4675-b3a3-2d8af7f5d313" name="Howard Bison" market="Howard" seed="16"/>
<team id="632616c5-2dbb-4017-a449-c9dfc303f026" name="Dayton Flyers" market="Dayton" seed="7"/>
<team id="a41d5a05-4c11-4171-a57e-e7a1ea325a6d" name="Michigan State Spartans" market="Michigan State" seed="9"/>
<team id="11a617d5-af03-4cce-bc8a-51114d9e41fe" name="Long Beach State Beach" market="Long Beach State" seed="15"/>
<team id="f7e6acc3-0778-4de5-940a-d88e20df1159" name="Grand Canyon Antelopes" market="Grand Canyon" seed="12"/>
<team id="8548dacb-3636-48a8-8c46-611ab0c15fc0" name="Charleston Cougars" market="Charleston" seed="13"/>
<team id="a1ba4b89-d97c-44e2-835f-79ad3ccaa5ae" name="Mississippi State Bulldogs" market="Mississippi State" seed="8"/>
</bracket>
<bracket id="f4c07603-e374-4223-a200-594998598c06" name="East Regional" location="Boston, MA, USA" rank="1">
<team id="efba5350-79bc-47aa-a189-db177b95b491" name="UConn Huskies" market="UConn" seed="1"/>
<team id="63a8fdcf-b51b-4de3-8a57-2a6e41d362ce" name="UAB Blazers" market="UAB" seed="12"/>
<team id="c851131a-5ecd-4670-81bc-b40f4837dd65" name="Florida Atlantic Owls" market="Florida Atlantic" seed="8"/>
<team id="4b7dedc0-7b48-49a4-aad6-8a94a33274d2" name="Northwestern Wildcats" market="Northwestern" seed="9"/>
<team id="0c0608b3-f349-4f5e-9a10-7e6a744dd0d2" name="Auburn Tigers" market="Auburn" seed="4"/>
<team id="b7747a03-c85b-4de6-94bf-1b5b68553248" name="Morehead State Eagles" market="Morehead State" seed="14"/>
<team id="c31455b2-8a45-4248-aa8f-ce7eab1c6b02" name="BYU Cougars" market="BYU" seed="6"/>
<team id="aed211c3-23a4-4188-ad70-22c6eba7d765" name="Drake Bulldogs" market="Drake" seed="10"/>
<team id="6ef40534-5fad-4755-84de-7dcbd645d1f0" name="South Dakota State Jackrabbits" market="South Dakota State" seed="15"/>
<team id="2d4f0015-adb4-4877-8c15-4a6eed7eed03" name="Washington State Cougars" market="Washington State" seed="7"/>
<team id="0e4258fa-3154-4c16-b693-adecab184c6c" name="Iowa State Cyclones" market="Iowa State" seed="2"/>
<team id="150148c2-ca8f-414f-8f41-d94a55d4a122" name="Illinois Fighting Illini" market="Illinois" seed="3"/>
<team id="e6914f16-ca37-4d2e-ba26-a425910283e2" name="San Diego State Aztecs" market="San Diego State" seed="5"/>
<team id="394d1b2b-7a19-4d43-b04a-5f366c24e5bf" name="Stetson Hatters" market="Stetson" seed="16"/>
<team id="ca478771-aa3d-4231-81e0-b70f519134fb" name="Yale Bulldogs" market="Yale" seed="13"/>
<team id="fea46ac5-6dad-43cd-a770-75554dbcc118" name="Duquesne Dukes" market="Duquesne" seed="11"/>
</bracket>
</tournament>
Tracking Tournament Progression
You can monitor the progression of the tournament using the Tournament Schedule endpoint. Prior to the tournament's start, this endpoint will show empty placeholders for each round. As matchups are determined, it will update with matchup details and subsequently with the times of these games as they become available. Similar to regular games, each tournament matchup is assigned a unique game ID.
As the tournament advances, each game ID will be associated with two source IDs, representing the games that led to the matchup. Refer to the example below that shows the source IDs for two first round games nested within a second round game. You can use these source IDs to pull information on the source games.
</game>
<game id="1267efad-4705-4d72-a3ea-babdb1b2a085" status="time-tbd" title="East Regional - Second Round - Game 1"
coverage="full" scheduled="2024-03-23T17:00:00+00:00" neutral_site="true" conference_game="false"
track_on_court="false" home_team="" away_team="">
<time_zones/>
<home name="East Regional - First Round - Game 1 (win)" alias="East Regional - First Round - Game 1 (win)">
<source id="61a2915f-5faf-44d1-aa43-ebc8ed0653a0" title="East Regional - First Round - Game 1"
status="time-tbd" coverage="full" home_team="e39873c2-f421-46b0-9c35-500da41625c2"
away_team="e39873c2-f421-46b0-9c35-500da41625c2" scheduled="2024-03-21T17:00:00+00:00"
outcome="win"/>
</home>
<away name="East Regional - First Round - Game 2 (win)" alias="East Regional - First Round - Game 2 (win)">
<source id="a9b26c81-0689-46b9-b406-e0fbb8b4cf22" title="East Regional - First Round - Game 2"
status="time-tbd" coverage="full" home_team="e39873c2-f421-46b0-9c35-500da41625c2"
away_team="e39873c2-f421-46b0-9c35-500da41625c2" scheduled="2024-03-21T17:00:00+00:00"
outcome="win"/>
</away>
</game>
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