Throughout the NCAA Tournament, my brother and I captured and analyzed all tweets that contained hashtags for the 64 participating teams (e.g., Arizona: #BearDown, Florida Gulf Coast: #FGCU, Indiana: #iubb, etc.). (A full listing of the hashtags along with our methodology is provided at the bottom of this post.) In total we captured over 5 million tweets with team hashtags over 19 days. The resulting data is provided below in an elaborate collection of charts and graphs.

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