It’s that time of year again - March Madness! As always, we have a tournament pool group on the ESPN app and website.
Group name: SDMB Bracketeers
Password: cecil123
There is a limit of three brackets per participant. Brackets must be completed before the start of the first game on Thursday March 19.
Good luck!
Just checking the ESPN app this morning - the SDMB group for the men’s tournament does not show up under the women’s tournament tab. If anyone wants to do a women’s tournament pool they will have to create a new group.
I just submitted my bracket. I picked Duke to be upset in the Sweet 16 round because Screw Duke.
My comment from last year’s thread: 2025 College Basketball Tournament Pool - #5 by Ponch8
Same comment applies this year. Go Gators - Defending National Champions! 
I let my 6-year-old granddaughter enter a bracket in this pool. Her first pick was Long Island over Arizona. Bold move on her part.
Those are the ones who always win tournament pools - the people who have no clue what they’re doing.
If I win this one, that’s definitely me. I don’t follow college basketball, I haven’t watched a game in many years and I don’t have a clue.
It feels so weird to not have Oregon be in the tournament this year. Taking a longer-term view of things, it feels so weird for it to feel weird for Oregon not to be in the tournament. However, I just found out they are going to go ahead and have the tournament anyway, so I might as well do a bracket. I’ll try making a chalky one for a change.
I suspect Duke will win, but neither of my brackets have them winning because I refuse to cheer for them for any reason.
Well, I’m in. Didn’t pick any greater upsets than one #11 beating a #6 and a few #10s winning games against #7s.
That should ensure at least a few major upsets.
Bumping the thread since the brackets lock later this morning (the ESPN app says 11:15 - I assume that is time zone adjusted and I am in the Central Time zone). If you haven’t filled out a bracket, or it’s not complete, or you want to make some last minute adjustments, better hurry!
One request - if your SDMB name isn’t obvious from your bracket name, maybe drop a note in this thread letting us know which one is yours.
I am 80563733.
And proud of it.
Added a second bracket based on a random algorithm. Unless BYU and Miami of Ohio both make the Elite Eight, in that case I figured it out based on my extensive basketball knowledge and you should all sign up for my handicapping service.
Poor little Siena. Man, that was looking like THE major upset of the tournament. Apparently their starters played nearly the entire game? (I think one sub went in with just a few seconds left.) Those guys had to be exhausted by the end.