What do basketball teams have in common with radioactive nuclei? It turns out, there is more here than first meets the eye. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) basketball tournaments feeds fans' craving when NBA competitions are not in swing, and the college tournament time has been referred to as “March Madness” or the “Big Dance”1 as many fans participate in “bracketing,” i.e., predicting winners.
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