{"id":1473,"date":"2010-03-17T17:14:55","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T21:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/march-madness%e2%80%94in-the-wake-of-acc-name-the-head-to-head-match-ups-youd-like-to-see\/"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:45:30","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T21:45:30","slug":"march-madness%e2%80%94in-the-wake-of-acc-name-the-head-to-head-match-ups-youd-like-to-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2010\/03\/17\/march-madness%e2%80%94in-the-wake-of-acc-name-the-head-to-head-match-ups-youd-like-to-see\/","title":{"rendered":"March Madness\u2014In the Wake of ACC, Name the Head-to-Head Match-Ups You’d Like to See"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you work for the NIH, you\u2019re not allowed to bet on your favorite NCAA basketball team<\/a>. But here at CardioExchange, you can channel your enthusiasm into a different set of brackets.<\/p>\n

The elegant simplicity of March Madness, despite the chaos, is that we get our questions answered: \u201cWho\u2019s better? Syracuse or Georgetown? UCLA or USC? Kansas or Kentucky?\u201d Teams are ranked and placed in brackets, face-off over three weeks, and one team is left undefeated at the end of the Tournament. This year, the ides of March bring us not just to beginning of the NCAA\u2019s March Madness Tournament, but also to the end of the ACC\u2019s Scientific Session. There was no tournament at the ACC, but we did see the results of several interesting head-to-head comparisons:<\/p>\n