Final 4 Bracket Buster for the Masses

The bracket is the star. A road map of hypnotic, straight-line symmetry leading to the "Final Four;" it is revered for both its simplicity and its complex possibilities. When empty, the bracket stirs hype and imagination. When filled with 65 teams at their starting lines, it stirs even more. Thus, there are many motivations for the bracketologist.

Bracketology is a way of seeing the world so that we can become more enlightened —about what we like, favor, prefer, abhor or abjure. It is a system that helps us make cleaner and clearer decisions about what is good, better, and best in this complicated world of ours.

Rather than "hello world," it's "hello bracketologist" — the practice of parsing people, places and things into discrete, one-on-one matchups to determine which of the two is superior or preferable.

It works because it is simple and elegant. What could be simpler than breaking down a choice into either/or, black or white, this one or that one?

Therefore, with all that said ---GO UCLA