References & Sources

Does March Madness need a time-out?

Basketball teams that have to travel across three time zones to play face twice the risk of being upset in the first round of NCAA tournaments.

References:

Kass, L., and G.H. Renninger. 1999. Influence of the human circadian clock. Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. October. Miami Beach.

Sources:

Jane Jankowski
National Collegiate Athletic Association
P.O. Box 6222
Indianapolis, IN 46206-6222

Leonard Kass
University of Maine
Department of Biological Sciences
Orono, ME 04469

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 19, November 6, 1999, p. 303. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.