With March Madness upon us, it is only fitting that we breakdown this weekend's Bombardier Copper World Classic at Phoenix through bracketing:

Hornish gets a first round bye due to his convincing win in Miami. Gil de Ferran gets a third-round bye just to even out the bracket.

In the end the dance belongs to Sam Hornish.

IRL PHOENIX BRACKET
Round 1	Round 2	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Champ
Hornish BYE	Hornish	Hornish
Giaffone Boat	Giaffone		Hornish
B. Lazier Roe	B. Lazier	Sharp
Sharp Herb	Sharp			Hornish
J. Lazier deVries	J. Lazier	J. Lazier
Buhl Barron	Buhl		J. Lazier
Castroneves Noda	Castroneves	Castroneves
Cheever Treadway	Cheever				Hornish
Dare McGehee	Dare	Scheckter
Scheckter Carlson	Scheckter		Ward
Unser Jr. Lazzaro	Unser Jr.	Ward
Ward Redon	Ward			Ward
Salazar Mack	Salazar	de Ferran
de Ferran Hattori	de Ferran		de Ferran (BYE)

Seeds:
1. Sam Hornish Jr.
2. Gil de Ferran
3. Helio Castroneves
4. Scott Sharp
5. Buddy Lazier
6. Jaques Lazier
7. Eddie Cheever
8. Jeff Ward
9. Airton Dare
10. Eliseo Salazar
11. Tomas Scheckter
12. Al Unser Jr.
13. Felipe Giaffone
14. Robbie Buhl
15. Alex Barron
16. Billy Boat
17. Anthony Lazzaro
18. Tyce Carlson
19. George Mack
20. Robby McGehee
21. Laurent Redon
22. Ricky Treadway
23. John deVries
24. Billy Roe
25. Jon Herb
26. Hideki Noda
27. Shigeaki Hattori