the tournament is between arizona and jackson state and arizona is picked to win the game 20 in the next game in the bracket the second round wisconsin is picked to beat arizona 22 in the third and fourth rounds wisconsin is also picked to defeat lsu 24 and purdue 26 respectively until finally losing to michigan state 28 abbreviated mich st in the semi final round this chart also lists michigan state 30 as defeating florida in the ncaa u2122 final round each of the teams is initially assigned a u201c seed u201d 32 their place in the tournament which generally corresponds to their probability of winning the tournament in fig1 arizona 34 is listed as the number 1 seed in their bracket while their round one opponent jackson state 34 is given the number 16 seed by completely filling out this chart 10 the game 39 s participants predict the winning teams for the entire ongoing tournament prior to the tournament 39 s start and record these predictions in an easy to read form for the ncaa u2122 tournament these charts on brackets are typically published in magazines and newspapers nationwide and have become standardized for the tournament after completion of round one 40 of the tournament 32 of the 64 teams are eliminated from the competition the individual participants would have predicted the outcome of each game with varying degrees of success in one embodiment of the invention the points for each correct winning prediction would be calculated as follows each winning team in round one 40 would be worth two points plus a number of points equal to their seed.