bracketology
/ˌbrakəˈtäləjē
/noun US
1The activity of predicting the participants in and outcomes of the games in a sports tournament, especially the NCAA college basketball tournament: it’s never too early for some bracketology...
- Selection Sunday is the day we all claim to have majored in bracketology.
- The most interesting bracketology debate, by the way, is Duke.
- I can't believe it took this long for the 2013 bracketology predictions to come out.
1.1A set of predictions about the participants in and outcomes of the games in a sports tournament, typically presented on a diagram representing the sequence of games: in our latest bracketology, we have Maryland as a #3 seed...
- You had Rutgers listed in the "Next Four Out" on your latest bracketology printed Monday.
- To demonstrate how crazy college basketball is this year, his latest bracketology shows SIX Mountain West teams getting into the tourney.
- This will be my 5th year to do an official bracketology.
Origin
Early 21st century: from bracket (sense 5 of the noun).
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