In girl world, Getting Ready For the Big Dance means finding the perfect dress, a fabulous pair of designer shoes, a matching handbag, blingin’ jewels, ensuring you have a really hot date and spending hours primping in front of the mirror.

In sports world The Big Dance is the NCAA Basketball Tournament and Getting Ready for it means finding out who makes the cut on Selection Sunday, carefully designing a fabulous bracket, a big screen ready with CBS and NCAA Cable Packages with matching NCAA applications for iPhones, blackberries, internet, etc., spending as much money on office and online pools as you would fine jewelry, ensuring you have enough PTO to cover calling in sick to work until April and preparing to spend hours days in front of the television or computer screen watching every game possible.

If you’ve never experienced the Big Dance, also known as March Madness, it’s best to be prepared. I’ve already given you Elite 8 Reasons to Watch March Madness. Now I’m going to explain how to watch it. Going to break it down into:

• What is March Madness? Why is Selection Sunday important? Why on earth is everyone talking about Cinderella and their Super Sweet 16?
• Bracketology: What the heck is the bracket and how do I fill one out and make money!
• NBA vs NCAA: Isn’t it all basketball?
• Basketball Basics: Everything you need to know to understand what’s going on

First up, what is this Madness?

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