From courtside to classrooms, college campuses are buzzing with basketball madness. Before you test your NCAA college knowledge, check out our Population Bracketology games for men’s and women’s college basketball.
There’s double madness at 22 schools whose men’s and women’s teams were selected.
Did you know that the first college basketball game was played in 1896? Now, 128 years later, March Madness 2024 draws 68 men’s and 68 women’s teams from more than 350 colleges and universities with NCAA Division 1 (D-1) basketball programs.
Explore the college towns of your favorite teams through Census Bureau profiles that provide population counts as well as social, demographic and economic data.
Here’s a handy data-finding tip for all D-1 basketball college towns: locate each school’s home city and state on this list for men’s basketball and this list for women’s basketball and then peruse their profiles at data.census.gov/profile.
Texas has six men’s teams:
California has five women’s teams:
Tennessee has five women’s teams:
And Texas has five women’s teams:
The eight men's teams playing in the First Four are:
The eight women's teams playing in the First Four are:
There's double madness at 22 schools whose men's and women's teams were selected.
Select and play in each region. In the first game, find the men’s team in the place with the largest local population. In the second game, find the women's teams. You can play as many games as you like.
Can you reach the perfect score of 63?
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