bracketology: ('bra-ket-al-le-ji) n.
1. the science of determining the structure and outcomes of an elimination style tournament, especially referring to the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship Tournament.
2. a common symptom of March Madness.

March is upon us and that means only a few weeks before people across the nation start filling out their NCAA March Madness brackets for their tournament pools (unless if you are an NCAA student-athlete or coach). Predicting the final outcome of all 63 games is a near impossibility, although I think it was done once (I believe he won a year's supply of Pizza Hut or something). Getting a perfect bracket can be worth millions if you enter all the online contests.

With so much money at stake, Danny and I always do a little extra prep work. In addition to reading every sports magazine and newspaper in print to find out which team has the best 3 point shooting defense, we actually fill out a bracket for the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship. I think there are about 7 people in the history of North America who actually fill out this golf bracket, and we've completed it at least twice each. It was too easy to pick Tiger to win it all (which he did), so I picked Chad Campbell, the number 4 seed in the Gary Player bracket to win, but he was knocked out in round 3 by the 8 seed, Jerry Kelly.

I didn't do so well with this bracket, but it was good practice for the big one in March. I do not fill out a bracket for the NCAA Women's basketball tournament or the NIT, mainly because I will never watch women's basketball and NIT means 'Not-In-Tournament.' I'll share my winning bracket picking tips in two weeks.