#Print your brackets champions how to#

1 overall seed Alabama in the regular-season finale.

7 seed despite playing like one of the best teams in the country in the final few months, including a win over No. Brian Bennett, The Athletic ’s bracketologist Who got snubbed? Nevada making the field as the fourth team from the Mountain West was also a surprise, as most bracketologists had them out. The Cougars could potentially face Auburn in Birmingham in the second round - the committee flubbed big time on that one - then either Xavier or Indiana in the Sweet 16 and possibly Big 12 tournament champ Texas, which could have been a No. To be fair, Houston didn’t get a substantially easier path. It’s a rough way to treat the defending champs. That’s if the Jayhawks can get by teams like UConn and Saint Mary’s in the top half of the bracket. To top it off, Kansas got sent out West, where it could have to contend with UCLA and Gonzaga in their time zone in a potential Elite Eight showdown. Meanwhile, Houston played in the much weaker American Athletic Conference and lost in its league tournament final to Memphis on Sunday. 1 in computer rankings for much of the season, Kansas racked up a record 17 Quad 1 wins and won the regular-season title in the best league in the country, the Big 12. 2 overall seed over Kansas - and getting the Kansas City region. Our brackets are for entertainment purposes only and should not be used for gambling purposes.Houston earning the No. The person with the highest point total at the end of the tournament is the winner. There is no standard for the points system, everyone does it differently. This is a lot of printing but ensures to all people that the pool is being run fairly, and also allows them to see how well they are doing in the pool.Įach round is worth a set number of points, you can determine this on your own or by using one of our Bracket Scoring Systems, but be sure to let all of the entries know before the tournament begins what the scoring system will be(you should write the point values under each round at the top of the bracket) or you could use our Fillable Men's College Basketball Tournament Bracket, which will allow you to fully customize your bracket. For a tie breaker have each person write down what they think the total number of points scored in the championship game will be.Ĭollect the the brackets from each participant before the tournament begins, if you want to to do a little extra for the participants, print every person in the pool a copy of every other person's bracket. Each person is to completely fill in the bracket with the team they think will win each game. Pass the printed brackets out to friends, family, and co-workers. Print out the tournament bracket from above, estimate the total number of people you think will be interested in entering the pool and print/copy that many brackets.

#Print your brackets champions how to#

The steps below explain how to run the March Madness Bracket office pool.īefore filling out your bracket be sure to checkout Tournament wins by Seed, and Final Four Appearances by Seed, where we have calculated the odds of each seed winning the tournament and making it to the final four based on all of the past tournaments. The March Madness bracket office pool is by far the most popular pool there is, but check out all of our Office Pools for College Basketball Tourney we highly recommend trying our College Basketball Square Pool, which is similar to the Super Bowl Squares, except there is a winning square for every game of the tournament and also our College Basketball Tournament Props Pool where you try to correctly guess the outcome of 20 questions related to the tournament. This pool is ran during the Men's Basketball Championship. How to run a College Basketball Tournament Pool