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Mar 12, 2018 · The term “March Madness” is thought to have first been applied to the world of basketball by Henry V. Porter, assistant executive secretary of the Illinois High School Association (IHSA)...
Mar 16, 2023 · However, the NCAA didn't use that phrase in conjunction with the tournament until the 1980s, and the origin of "March Madness" actually traces back to high school basketball thanks to a man by the name of Henry V. Porter.
Mar 1, 2020 · While essentially now synonymous with college basketball and the NCAA Tournament, the term “March Madness” actually started a level below. In 1908, the Illinois High School Association (IHSA) began putting on a statewide boys’ basketball tournament for high school teams.
Mar 14, 2015 · For more than 40 years, “March Madness” was confined to Illinois. The state’s high school basketball tournament started in 1908 (Peoria beat Rock Island 48-29 for the title) and continued ...
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March Madness has referred to basketball games since at least 1939, when the phrase appeared in an article by Henry Porter, an Illinois high school athletics administrator. Coincidentally, the first NCAA men’s college basketball tournament was held in 1939, with eight teams competing, but it would be almost another 50 years before it came to be kno...
And so we come to another term we’ll be tossing around during March Madness: bracketology. This recent addition to the dictionary is defined as the practice of “predicting and tracking the process of elimination among sequentially paired opponents in a tournament,” which basically means predicting what teams will win in a group of pairings like the...
Bracketology combines bracket,in the sports sense of “a diagram for tracking advancement in tournament,” and –ology, a word-forming element indicating “branch of knowledge, science.” The term playfully elevates the sports pastime to a discipline or science. Stages of sports tournaments have been termed brackets since the early 1900s, from bracketas...
Circling back to March Madness, it’s worth nothing that people have used March madness to refer to “a form of madness or uncharacteristic behaviour said to affect people in March” (according to the OED) since the 1900s. The expression may have come from the erratic, tempestuousweather of the season; alternatively it may have something to do with ha...
The aphorism as mad as a March hare, has been around since at least the mid-1500sand refers to the phenomenon of hares becoming very aggressive during breeding season in March. The expression March mad, which may be a shortening of the aphorism, emerged shortly thereafter in the early 1600s. In an 1872 magazine Odd and Ends, the writer notes “How i...
Mar 20, 2014 · March Madness became the nickname for the Illinois high school basketball tournament in the 1940s; the Illinois High School Assn. made it official in 1977 and licensed the phrase to companies...
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In 1939, Henry V. Porter, the assistant executive secretary of the Illinois High School Association, first put the term March Madness to paper when he wrote an essay entitled "March...
