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This is a blog where a professor from Northeastern University's Math department posts mathematical comments on the television show "Numb3rs". To comment, write to bridger@neu.edu.
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March 27, 2009
Reader Eugene writes in to explain why there is a 65th team:
"At some point after the tournament expanded to 64 teams, one conference split into two. The NCAA wanted to give an automatic bid to the champion of each, but did not want to reduce the number of at-large bids. So they invented the play-in game, for the bottom two teams."
Thanks!
Your blogmeister
March 18, 2009
My apologies to all readers of the Numb3rs blog.
(1) I've been quite busy with schoolwork and
(2) There simply has not been much interesting math used on the show.
I hope to be back writing in a week or so.
Your blogmeister