Over the course of March, people have been keeping up with the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. There are many reasons why people love the NCAA Tournament, which is more commonly known as March Madness. March Madness embodies everything we as fans love about sports. It has the upsets, the favorites, and it is so unpredictable.

Every year people join groups in which they try to predict the winners of each game in the tournament. Generally in these groups, people have to put in money to join it, and the winners get the money. This is a way for someone who is not even a fan of college basketball to get involved in the tournament. This year more than eleven million brackets were submitted to ESPN. There was not a single perfect bracket of these eleven million after the first weekend. Last year, Warren Buffett had a billion dollar reward for a perfect bracket, but no one won it.

March Madness has so much drama. There are upsets, buzzer beaters, and epic matchups that everyone has been waiting for. In this year’s tournament, UAB and Georgia State, which were number 14 seeds, upsetted number 3 seeds Iowa State and Baylor in the first round. Also this year, Notre Dame versus Kentucky was a battle for the ages as Kentucky won by two at the end. Which set up a Final Four full of big time programs and match ups.

Some years, there are Cinderella teams in the Final Four, which is always entertaining. However, this year the Final Four was full of teams with tradition and legendary coaches. In one of the match ups, Duke beat Michigan State, which was Coach K versus Coach Izzo. Coach K is the winningest coach in NCAA history, and Coach Izzo had taken the Spartans to the Final Four for the sixth time. In the other match up, undefeated and underclassmen led Kentucky fell to a veteran Wisconsin team in a rematch of last year’s Final Four. This was a blockbuster rematch, in which Wisconsin got its revenge from last year by ending Kentucky’s perfect season.

The national championship game was full of entertainment as Duke beat Wisconsin after trailing most of the game. It took an incredible effort from an unlikely hero which was Duke’s freshman guard Grayson Allen. Allen scored ten straight points for the Blue Devils to put them back into the game. Duke went on to win 68-63. Freshman guards Tyus Jones and Grayson Allen combined for 39 of Duke’s 68. Even in the loss, Wisconsin’s senior forward Frank Kaminsky showed up for the last game of his career. He had a double-double with 23 points and 12 rebounds. He also took away one of Duke’s biggest threats in Jahlil Okafor by keeping him in foul trouble.

The NCAA Tournament is also a widely accepted way to find the champion of college basketball. There are not many if any complaints to the format of how the champion is determined. This is unlike the very controversial college football playoff, which left out a TCU team that only lost one game by a field goal.

The NCAA Tournament will be here for a long time so fill out your “perfect bracket” each year and continue to enjoy the madness.