Blacketology 

The phenomenon that every year since the onset of play-in games for the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, a historically black or mostly black university has been selected to play in at least 1 of the play-in games as a 16 seed. The intrigue of this phenomenon increases when considering that most of these teams lose their game.

Blacketology Timeline (Demographic data taken from the College Board)
2007- Florida A and M (94% Black), lost to Niagra 69-77
2008- Coppin State (85% Black), lost to Mount Saint Mary's 60-69
2009- Alabama State (92% Black), lost to Morehead State 41-58
2010- Arkansas Pine Bluff (93% Black), beat Winthrop 61-44
Start of the First Four Era
2011- Alabama State (92% Black), lost to UTSA 61-70
2012- Mississippi Valley State (91% Black), lost to Western Kentucky 58-59
2013- North Carolina A and T (81% Black), beat Liberty 73-72
2014- Texas Southern (82% Black), lost to Cal Poly 69-81
2015- Hampton (94% Black), result to be determined

Blacketology by T_WATER March 16, 2015

blackoutology 

1) when you have to check espn the morning after selection sunday to see if your team made the tournament

2) the day before you look at any bracket

3) the art of being blackout when submitting a bracket into a pool where you are about to lose money to your friends unless you drunkenly picked george mason or all 16 seeds

Pants: who do u have winning in your bracket
Parms: no idea i just woke up from blackoutology last night i'm gonna look at the bracket after i ditch this hangover

blackoutology by blackoutology March 14, 2010

bracketology 

Bracketology is an example of adding the suffix 'ology' to a trivial task to make it sound scientific or difficult. Usage skyrockets during the month of March when any idiot with cable thinks they know everything about college basketball. At least until the boss' 13 year old daughter wins the office pool by picking the teams with the best looking jerseys. Anybody else is just kidding themselves.

Also see words that add 'Engineering' and 'Science' to likewise trivial tasks.

I am a bracketologist! I am a master in the art of bracketology! hurr!

bracketology by Ryanadadasd December 15, 2008

bracketology 

Easy. Bracket. Something used normally in hanging something up or securing something. tology - the act of putting up a bracket or the science of actually making the bracket work properly after installed.... Wasn't that a crock....

We will use the bracketology to solve the problem of hanging this up.

bracketology by fancysmommy December 15, 2008

bracketology 

a college major, which is the art of studying, researching, and predicting which men's college basketball teams will advance in the upcoming men's ncaa final four tournament using an official tournament bracket which is released on selection sunday.

Andy Katz is the professor of teaching bracketology.

bracketology by Professor Katz March 16, 2008

bracketology 

The Art and Science of figuring out and filling out NCAA basketball tournament bracket during March Madness.

Hmm... Well, don't put any teams from Pac 10 to pass 2nd round on your bracket this year. I'm serious.

bracketology by Dr. Bracketowski March 1, 2005

bracketology 

Most directly put, the study of how to put a bracket together. Popularized by the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, bracketology is the system by which sports analysts and the NCAA committee decide, by a series of statistics such as RPI, win-loss ratio, final AP Ranking, and auto-bids decided by the outcome of a teams regional end-of-season tournament, what 65 teams (including the play-in game for the two least-qualified team) will play for the chance to win the NCAA Div. 1 Men's Basketball title. Teams are separated into four regions with 16 teams placed in each region. Each region contains teams with seeds #1-#16 and tournament play commences in early-mid March, hence the dubbed tournament name, March Madness.
Bracketology is not limited to the NCAA Men's Basketball tournament, but that is the most common usage of the term when referred to in sports.

After brackets are set up by way of bracketology, the 65 team tournament field, a team must put together a series of six wins against some of the best teams in the country in order to win the prestigious NCAA Title.

bracketology by Scotty V June 11, 2008