This school has won the most championships since the tournament began.
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
This curse involves assassinations, deaths, and other misfortunes impacting this Irish-American political family.
Kennedy Family
This American political party is widely considered to be the oldest continuous political party in the world.
Democratic Party
This country recently became the world’s most populous, according to various calculations and estimates.
India
This 1990s sitcom features a young Will Smith playing the lead character.
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
This school is the last to be repeat champions in the tournament.
University of Florida/Florida
The Curse of the Bambino resulted in this team not winning a championship for 86 years.
Boston Red Sox
This rapper, with five Grammy Awards to his name and holding numerous records in the music industry, released his debut mixtape in 2006.
Drake
This country was invaded in 1979, leading to the United States boycotting the 1980 Olympic Games.
Afghanistan
Taking place in Scranton, Pennsylvania, this sitcom takes place in a “typical” workplace environment.
The Office
In 2018, this school was the first sixteen seed to upset the one seed in a tournament.
University of Maryland, Baltimore County/UMBC
This character in Romeo and Juliet places a curse on the Montague and Capulet families.
Mercutio
The term for the rate of change of a mathematical function with respect to a variable.
This country was jointly invaded and occupied by the Soviets and British in 1941, in part to ensure Allied supply lines stayed intact as well as to take advantage of the country’s oil reserves.
Iran/Persia
Debuting in 1989, this sitcom is still releasing new episodes, of which there are more than 700 of, to this day on Fox.
The Simpsons
Among active coaches, he is the only one with two championships or more.
Bill Self
In the New Testament’s Gospel of Mark, Jesus places a curse on this type of tree.
Fig Tree
(DAILY DOUBLE)
Dunkirk
Located partially on the Caspian Sea, this country’s capital city lies roughly 92 feet below sea level.
Azerbaijan
Despite only having five seasons, this sitcom’s debut was in 2003 and its final episode was not released (on Netflix) until 2019.
Arrested Development
This Big Ten school has the longest current streak of tournament appearances.
Michigan State University (1998-2024)
King Oedipus of Thebes cursed these two people to kill each other.
His sons, Eteocles and Polynices.
This medical treatment replaces the filtering function of the kidneys in the human body.
Dialysis
This landlocked country’s currency is known as the “Kip.”
Laos
A staple of 1950s CBS, this sitcom stars Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz acting as the two main characters.
I Love Lucy