Here's an interesting little mathematics / statistical analysis of the NCAA tournament that you may find to be a nice reprieve from your finals studying:
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/15/when-15th-is-better-than-8th-the-math-shows-the-bracket-is-backward/?hp
These authors show that lower-ranked seeds actually have a higher probability of making it to the sweet sixteen, elite eight, and final four than mid-ranked teams. It's a problem ripe for population balances and rate equations, in truth not really all that different from mass balances and chemical kinetics.
Go Gauchos!
MSS
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