Ncaa March Madness Printable Bracket 2024 (2024)

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What are the odds of filling out a perfect NCAA tournament bracket? ›

The odds of filling out a perfect bracket are one in 9.2 quintillion. Written out, that's 9,223,372,036,854,775,808. CHARLOTTE, N.C. — March Madness is officially here.

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There has never been a perfect bracket that correctly guessed the outcome of all 63 games in the tournament, despite millions and millions of brackets submitted each year. That fact, however, won't discourage millions and millions of more participants from trying to hit a slam dunk this year.

With more than three decades of online and paper brackets to sift through (the current format has existed since 1985) and with somewhere between an estimated 60 million to 100 million brackets filled out every year, it's very possible that someone, somewhere has done better.

NO ONE HAS EVER picked a verified perfect NCAA men's bracket, and it's probably not going to happen in our lifetime, or the lifetime of our kids, or their kids, or their kids.

The title game is set for the women's NCAA March Madness tournament. The South Carolina Gameco*cks will put their undefeated record on the line against Caitlin Clark and the Iowa Hawkeyes — and per usual, South Carolina is favored.

At Yahoo Sports' bracket game, more than one-third of the brackets have UConn as the champion. As of Tuesday morning, 34.57% of all players in have picked Connecticut to win it all.

And, in the process, the Aggies busted the final perfect bracket. As the 2024 men's NCAA Tournament enters the second round on Saturday, there are no more perfect brackets remaining among major online platforms (NCAA, ESPN, CBS and Yahoo), according to the NCAA.

Who's predicted to win the NCAA Tournament? ›

Now that we are down to the last two teams, the defending champion UConn Huskies remain the favorites to win the men's college basketball national title. Despite Zach Edey and the Boilermakers playing great basketball, the Huskies are considerably favorites as of Monday morning.

Selection Sunday typically starts at 6 p.m. ET. The men's bracket is revealed first and the women's bracket is revealed after around 8 p.m. ET.

The Wildcats are on the top tier of title contenders with UConn, Purdue and Houston. With an explosive, up-tempo offense and a substantially better defense than last season's version, this team can win it all. Arizona is balanced offensively, with explosive guards and very good size to score around and protect the rim.

Those payments are determined by “units,” which are earned for each game a school plays, not including the National Championship. Each of the 132 units up for grabs are worth about $2 million, according to Sportico. Conferences distribute the money, which is paid out over six years, to their schools.

O'Byrne says 4.7 billion millennia. That's 4.7 trillion years, or slightly longer than the four days between Selection Sunday and the 1st round. Since 1985, when the March Madness field expanded to 64 teams, the longest any verified bracket has stayed perfect is 49 games.

In 2014, Warren Buffett created a challenge for his Berkshire Hathaway employees: Whoever could correctly predict the outcome of all 67 games of March Madness would win $1 billion. However, as Buffett doubtless knew, the odds of picking a perfect bracket are infinitesimally small.

How crazy small is the chance? Here's the TL/DR version of the odds of a perfect NCAA bracket: 1 in 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 (if you just guess or flip a coin) 1 in 120.2 billion (if you know a little something about basketball)

One of my favorite March Madness bracket tips is to look at how a team performed down the stretch. Focus on teams who finished the regular season strong. Chances are they will carry over that momentum into the NCAA tournament. Rarely do we see teams who struggled over their final games make a deep tournament run.