March Madness 2009 is official. The tournament selections were revealed last night, and the mad dash begins today for information about teams. Bracket pools are being organized across offices, schools, and other various organizations. March Madness cost businesses $1.7B last year as a result of people taking work time to use and access March Madness technology. Now, don’t get down on me for promoting ways to waste time in the office. I just report on the technology, I don’t necessarily advocate it. But, because basketball is my favorite sport, and March Madness does rival Christmas for the title of “Most Wonderful Time of the Year”, I do advocate everything here and believe it is all worth using – no matter where you are.
All Games. Live. For Free. The games begin Thursday and Friday with tip-offs at 12:20pm. The NCAA realized that most people are at work during this time, and did not have access to any TVs. Thankfully, they teamed up with CBS Sports to bring you all 63 March Madness 2009 games live over the internet at MMOD for no cost. The greatest feature over at MMOD is that you can watch more than one game at once. You can keep up with multiple games so that you don’t have to miss a second of the action. That is what I call good technology.
ESPN Bracketology. ESPN’s Bracketology has been a NCAA fan favorite all year. They follow college basketball from Week 1 until the Big Dance, all along the way making predictions as to who is in the tourney, and who is out. Once the brackets are set and released, they launch into extensive coverage of the teams scrutinizing selections, match-ups, upset possibilites, and altogether giving the bracketologist (you) too much to think about so that you end up screwing over your own brackets in the end. But seriously, Bracketology is one of the most valuable resources for the March Madness Lover – dig it.
Yahoo! Sports and Bracket Contest. Yahoo! Sports is another valuable online resource for the March Madness enthusiast. They offer in the in depth match-up coverage you want in the small and easily understandable blurbs that your schedule mandates. Yahoo! also puts on one of the greatest bracket contests every year. Sure, you can do brackets and pools at any sports news site (ESPN, Fox Sports, CBS, etc.) but the kicker is that Yahoo! will pay $1M for the user who picks a perfect 63 games set, and $10,000 for the most correct bracket (assuming there are none perfect). Whats more, is that Yahoo! Sports give you a look at how the rest of the bracketeers are picking their games. In the match-up information section, they show the percentages of how many picked a team to win, letting you know just how popular your upset ideas may or may not be.
Printable Bracket. For all of you old school bracket-masters who prefer not to get too involved in the whole interweb scheme there are plent of printable brackets to go around. Check out Yahoo! Sports to get your printable bracket in PDF format. (You will need Adobe Reader to download, view, and print the bracket.)
Best of luck fellow March Madness lovers, I can’t wait to win that cool Million.
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