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USA Today
30-03-2025
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- USA Today
UCLA women's basketball's Elite Eight win vs LSU eliminates final March Madness perfect bracket
UCLA women's basketball's Elite Eight win vs LSU eliminates final March Madness perfect bracket Show Caption Hide Caption South Carolina's Dawn Staley and Duke's Kara Lawson have swag South Carolina women's basketball coach Dawn Staley has swag. So does Duke's Kara Lawson. We asked USC and Duke players who has the most. What they said USA TODAY UCLA women's basketball's 72-65 victory over LSU in the Elite Eight of the 2025 NCAA Tournament did more than just send the Bruins to the first Final Four in program history. It ended the dreams that remained for a perfect bracket. Heading into Sunday's women's Elite Eight games, there was one bracket remaining in the ESPN Tournament Challenge (out of 3.4 million) that had correctly picked the previous 57 games, but it had the No. 3 seed Tigers knocking off UCLA, the tournament's No. 1 overall seed. REQUIRED READING: When South Carolina women's basketball cuts down nets, this Gamecocks staffer is in charge For years, the idea of a bracket with no incorrect predictions has existed as something of a pipe dream. The likelihood of correctly picking 67 games is virtually a statistical impossibility, with the NCAA putting the odds of achieving it at one in 120 billion. For a brief moment, it appeared as though the inconceivable could become a reality. Not only had the bracket correctly guessed all the previous winners, but it had selected the favored team in eight of the nine remaining matchups. It's the second consecutive year that a women's tournament bracket has gotten tantalizing close to perfection. During the 2024 NCAA Tournament, a bracket correctly predicted the first 50 games until No. 3 seed NC State beat No. 2 seed Stanford in the Sweet 16.
Yahoo
27-03-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Your printable bracket for March Madness 2025 before NCAA tournament Round 1 begins
Did you procrastinate on filling out your March Madness bracket? We've got you covered. The NCAA tournament's first round begins at 12:15 p.m. today, when No. 8 Louisville and No. 9 Creighton face off in the South Region. You'll need your bracket filled out before that game begins, whether you're playing in the ESPN Tournament Challenge or elsewhere. Here's how you can print your bracket, the NCAA tournament schedule, other ways you can play and more. March Madness printable bracket 2025 The 2025 NCAA tournament bracket is filled out with the remaining 64 teams, now that the First Four is over. Advertisement You also can see, print and fill out your bracket at IT'S BRACKET MADNESS: Enter USA TODAY's Bracket Challenge contest for a chance at $1 million prize NCAA tournament schedule: Thursday Day 1 SURVIVOR POOL: Free to enter. $2,500 to win. Can you survive the madness? NCAA tournament schedule: Friday Day 2 How to watch, stream March Madness games TV channel: CBS, TNT, TBS, truTV Streaming: NCAA March Madness live | Fubo | Sling TV | Max Each of the 2025 NCAA tournament games will air live one of CBS, TNT, TBS or truTV, with streaming options on the NCAA March Madness live app, Fubo — which offers a free trial to potential subscribers — or Sling TV, which offers packages that include Turner Broadcast stations. Advertisement Be sure to follow the Detroit Free Press on X (@freep) and Instagram and like us on Facebook. We occasionally recommend interesting products and services. If you make a purchase by clicking one of the links, we may earn an affiliate fee. USA TODAY Network newsrooms operate independently, and this doesn't influence our coverage. This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: March Madness printable bracket 2025 for NCAA tournament
Yahoo
19-03-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
March Madness 2025: How to fill out an NCAA Tournament bracket
Welcome to March Madness. For the next month, college basketball will dominate the sports world as the 2025 NCAA tournament takes center stage. 68 teams will compete for a chance to etch their names into history by winning the national championship. If this is your first time watching the tournament, get ready to hear this word repeated constantly: bracket. Filling out a bracket is becoming a yearly tradition for many Americans. In a survey by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, about one-quarter of Americans fill out a men's bracket 'every year' or 'some years.' A portion of these Americans may not know anything about college basketball. That's OK. You can watch all the college basketball in the world, and it might not matter because ultimately, the bracket is a game of chance. Below are some beginner tips and tricks to follow when filling out your brackets. The above picture is the 2025 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship bracket. Right now, there are 68 teams listed on the bracket. After the First Four ends on Wednesday night, the bracket will have 64 teams. The goal is to pick the winner of each game. There are four quadrants, or regions. Each region has schools ranked from No. 1 to No. 16. The goal for each school is to win their region and get to the Final Four. The region winners on the left and right will play each other, with the winners moving to the championship. The winner of that game will be the national champion. Let's look at the West Region's first game (bottom left on the bracket): No. 1 Florida (30-4) vs. No. 16 Norfolk State (24-10). 'No. 1' is the seed, and '30-4' is the team's record. No. 1 is the higher seed, so that's Florida. You can pick either Florida or Norfolk State to win. However, No. 1 seeds rarely lose to No. 16 seeds. No. 1 seeds are 154-2 all-time against No. 16. The most recent upset victory came in 2023 when No. 16 Fairleigh Dickinson defeated No. 1 Purdue. You'll notice in some regions that there are two teams listed in a matchup. No. 6. Ole Miss will play No. 11 San Diego St./No. 11 North Carolina in the South Region. San Diego St. and North Carolina will play in the First Four. The winner of that game will face No. 6 Ole Miss. You do not have to pick the winner of San Diego State and North Carolina. However, you can pick that winner to beat Ole Miss if that's your decision. has a printable and interactive bracket. There are various tournament challenges you can enter for free. The NCAA Men's Bracket Challenge, ESPN Tournament Challenge, and CBS Sports Bracket Challenge are some of the more popular internet contests. The grand prizes range from prize money to future trips to the Final Four. The submission deadline for most pools is before the first game at 12:15 p.m. ET on Thursday, March 20. The objective for every pool or contest you enter is virtually the same: pick the winners for every game. However, the scoring can vary for each contest, so please read the rules before signing up. Generally speaking, players accumulate points in every round for each winner. However, more points are usually awarded for picking winners in later rounds. In other words, the closer a game is to the national championship, the more points available to win. Knowing this, picking the correct champion and having as many teams as possible in the later rounds can be the difference between winning and losing. What makes March Madness unique from other tournaments are the upsets, especially in the first two rounds. An upset occurs when a higher seed defeats a lower seed. For example, a popular upset pick will be a No. 11 seed over a No. 6 seed. Per the NCAA, a No. 11 seed has defeated a No. 6 seed 61 times (39.1%) since 1985. Therefore, picking at least one No. 11 seed to defeat a No. 6 seed is a good move. Most upsets occur in the first round — 8.5 per tournament since 1985. Don't get addicted to picking upsets. The favorites are favored for a reason. The lowest seed to ever make it to the Final Four is No. 11. No. 12-No. 16 have never made it to the Final Four, so while it would be cool to have the bracket with a No. 13 in the championship, it's never happened. Here are the dates for every round of the NCAA Tournament: First Four: March 18-19 First round: March 20-21 Second round: March 22-23 Sweet 16: March 27-28 Elite Eight: March 29-30 Final Four: April 5 NCAA championship game: April 7 Men's March Madness coverage can be found on CBS, TNT, TBS, and truTV. Every game can be streamed in the March Madness Live app using a TV provider. TNT, TBS, and truTV games can be streamed with Max, while CBS games can be found on Paramount+.
