march madness

The NCAA basketball tournament has always been called "March Madness," even though the Final Four and championship game are in April. If you see a lot of round 1 games with top seeds facing long shots, you'll also witness "safe" basketball that doesn't look mad at all. So why is it called March Madness? These three videos explain it all.

A lot of people do their March Madness picks based on mascots. Considering your odds of winning, that sounds as legitimate as anything else. To make it more fun, the Washington Post is introducing mascot emoji!

The 2014 NCAA men's basketball tournament field of 68 has been set. Here's a preview of what to expect in each region:

Today's top sports stories:

With March Madness breathing right down our necks, are you getting ready to take part in your office's annual bracket contest?

March Madness begins on Tuesday, with the four play-in games, then starts for real on Thursday. But on Sunday, we finally got a look at the brackets for the first time—and a few teams are feeling left out, forgotten or just plain insulted.

We don't know if anybody else refers to them this way, but we thought it was kind of fun.

March Madness--the Dance--The 64 teams that battle to become NCAA Division I Basketball Champ.  But does EVERYONE really get into it?

Butler found themselves swarmed by the athletic Huskies for most of the second half, as an early second half run was too much for the Bulldogs to handle as they fall in the national championship game 53-41 Monday night at Reliant Stadium in Houston...

Barack Obama didn't take a whole lot of risks when filling out his NCAA Tournament brackets. The President has all four number one seeds — Duke, Pittsburgh, Ohio State and Kansas — advancing to the Final Four, with Kansas winning it all...