Sweet Sixteen (Sports)
The term Sweet Sixteen is used in the field of sports and refers to a tournament round with the remaining 16 teams in a competition that have emerged from one or more preliminary rounds.
The origin of the term can be found in the US university sports association National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), where it is used in the NCAA Division I basketball championship and describes the third main round. Meanwhile, the round of 16 of the national competitions in the United States and numerous international competitions are referred to as Sweet Sixteen or Sweet 16.
National competitions in the United States
- NCAA Men's Basketball Division 1 (Men)
- NCAA Women's Basketball Division 1 (Women)
- NCAA Men's Soccer Division I (Men)
- NCAA Women's Soccer Division I (women)
- NCAA Men's College Football (Men)
- NCAA Men's College Baseball (Men)
The March Madness in popular culture
In the 14th episode of the third season of How I Met Your Mother with the title The Bracket (German: The Avenger ), the course of the March Madness tournament in basketball is exemplified by the ensemble trying to predict which of Barney Stinson's exiles were injured so badly she was trying to warn other women about him. Lily tells him to apologize to the Final Four .