Skipping this year’s March Madness brackets? It’s not just you
Associated PressWASHINGTON — In East Lansing, Michigan, college sports often dominate conversations — especially in March, when everyone seems to be filling out their NCAA brackets. A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that about 7 in 10 U.S. adults say they “never” fill out a bracket for the NCAA men’s or women’s basketball tournament. “I’ve never understood the March madness.” Other bracket avoiders plan to watch tournament games but won’t predict winners. “But where I am, football is more the big thing.” Even among the sliver of U.S. adults who fill out a men’s or women’s bracket at least “some years,” about two-thirds of that group say the fact that other people were doing it was a “major” or “minor” reason for their participation. Edain, 55, used to work in an office that may have had more discussion of March Madness and brackets as it happened — or she would overhear references to Gonzaga University’s many tournament runs — but the bracket predictions have never appealed to her.
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