Department of Sports Management to Begin Offering Bracketology Course
Last week, the Texas A&M University Department of Sport Management announced that they will begin offering a new course in bracketology. “Bracketology” is a pseudo-science focused on the prediction of seeding and game outcomes in the annual NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, also known as “March Madness.”
“We figured it’d be a great opportunity to prove to these ungrateful youth that you actually will use math in your daily life after college,” said Sports Management Department Head Greg Ball.
The course, listed as SPMT 268: Fundamentals of Bracketology, covers a variety of topics, including upset basics, mascot analysis and intermediate coping techniques. Department faculty have apparently been clamouring to teach a section of the course, particularly in the midst of their hotly-anticipated annual bracket pool.
“I might as well fine-tune my analysis spreadsheet on the University’s time,” said Dr. Julius Edwards, who created the syllabus. “Soon, these kids are going to be in office bracket pools too; it’s my duty as an educator to prepare them for the workforce.”
Enthusiasm on the student side has also been particularly high, with sections rapidly filling up in the early hours of registration.
“My girlfriend somehow beats me every year by picking the teams she thinks look the ‘cutest.’ I’ve had three different girlfriends over the past three years, and the same thing happens every time,” said junior Kyle Greenbaum, who plans on taking the course next fall.
Fundamentals of Bracketology is open to all majors and fulfills several degree requirements for Mays graduates. This course also fulfills the CORE requirement for cultural discourse for other majors. It should be noted that Dr. Edwards warns that, in all likelihood, even after taking the course, your bracket will still be busted on the first day.
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