From courtside to classrooms, college campuses are buzzing with basketball madness. Before you test your NCAA college knowledge, check out our Population Bracketology games for men’s and women’s college basketball.

There’s double madness at 22 schools whose men’s and women’s teams were selected.

Did you know that the first college basketball game was played in 1896? Now, 128 years later, March Madness 2024 draws 68 men’s and 68 women’s teams from more than 350 colleges and universities with NCAA Division 1 (D-1) basketball programs.

March Madness Tips and Fun Facts

Explore the college towns of your favorite teams through Census Bureau profiles that provide population counts as well as social, demographic and economic data.

Here’s a handy data-finding tip for all D-1 basketball college towns: locate each school’s home city and state on this list for men’s basketball and this list for women’s basketball and then peruse their profiles at data.census.gov/profile.

Men's NCAA D1 Basketball #1 Seeds

University of Connecticut (UConn), Storrs (census designated place or CDP), Connecticut.
University of Houston, Houston, Texas.
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Women’s NCAA D1 Basketball #1 Seeds

University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina.
University of Texas – Austin, Austin, Texas.
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.
University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, California.

Which State Has the Most Teams This Year?

Texas has six men’s teams:

Baylor, Houston, Texas Christian University (TCU), UT – Austin, Texas A&M, and Texas Tech.

California has five women’s teams:

California Baptist, Stanford, University of California (UC) – Irvine, UCLA, and USC.

Tennessee has five women’s teams:

Chattanooga, Middle Tennessee, University of Tennessee (Knoxville), Vanderbilt, and University of Tennessee – Martin.

And Texas has five women’s teams:

Baylor, Rice, Texas, Texas A&M, and Texas A&M – Corpus Christi.

What Teams Are Playing in the First Four Competition?

The eight men's teams playing in the First Four are:

Howard, Wagner, Virginia, Colorado State, Montana State, Grambling, Boise State and Colorado.

The eight women's teams playing in the First Four are:

Sacred Heart, Presbyterian, Holy Cross, UT – Martin, Auburn, Arizona, Vanderbilt, and Columbia.

Double Madness: Colleges With Both Teams in the NCAA Tournament

There's double madness at 22 schools whose men's and women's teams were selected.

University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
Auburn University, Auburn, Tennessee.
Baylor University, Waco, Texas.
University of Colorado – Boulder, Boulder, Colorado.
Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska.
Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa.
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington.
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas.
Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina.
University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina.
South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota.
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee.
University of Texas – Austin, Austin, Texas.
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.
University of Connecticut (UConn), Storrs (census designated place or CDP), Connecticut.

Play the Population Bracketology Games

Select and play in each region. In the first game, find the men’s team in the place with the largest local population. In the second game, find the women's teams. You can play as many games as you like.

Can you reach the perfect score of 63?