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

by blackoutology March 14, 2010

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

by T_WATER March 16, 2015