A 2024 March Madness vocabulary: How to sound like you know what you're talking about
The NCAA basketball tournaments can be onslaught of unfamiliar names and terms enough to make any casual viewer nervous. We're here to help. (Except for NET. We can't explain NET.)
For basketball lovers, March is a time to live and breathe the sport.
For others, March can turn conversations at the office or a party into a moment of bewilderment: McWhat State? Caitlin and Angel who? What did that hand gesture mean? What on earth is NET?
If you don't know a buzzer beater from a bracket buster, let us help. Here's some terminology and names to know as the men's and women's NCAA Division I tournaments tip off:
March Madness vocabulary and names to know, from A to Z
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