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America Counts: Stories Behind the Numbers
College Hoops Craze Captivates the Nation
From courtside to classrooms, college campuses are buzzing with basketball madness. Before you test your NCAA college knowledge, check out our Population Bracketology games for men’s and women’s college basketball.
Did you know that the first college basketball game was played in 1896? Now, 128 years later, March Madness 2024 draws 68 men’s and 68 women’s teams from more than 350 colleges and universities with NCAA Division 1 (D-1) basketball programs.
Explore the college towns of your favorite teams through Census Bureau profiles that provide population counts as well as social, demographic and economic data.
Here’s a handy data-finding tip for all D-1 basketball college towns: locate each school’s home city and state on this list for men’s basketball and this list for women’s basketball and then peruse their profiles at data.census.gov/profile.
Continue reading to learn more about:
- The men's and women’s NCAA D1 basketball #1 seeds
- Which state has the most teams this year
- What are the First Four teams in the NCAA Tournament
- Double madness: colleges with both men's and women's teams in the tournament
- The population bracketology games
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Test your knowledge of population data for the men's and women's March basketball tournaments!
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