March Madness is almost here, and fans looking to find a printable bracket to make their picks in the men’s tournament won’t have much longer to wait.
The NCAA regular season wraps up on Sunday afternoon with the completion of conference tournaments, with the bracket coming out after the Selection Sunday show at 6 p.m. ET on CBS. The printable bracket will be available shortly afterward, and fans can get some tips about filling in the brackets while the printer warms up.
The NCAA has already released a blank March Madness bracket for those who want to fill it in along with the Selection Sunday broadcast.
UPDATE: The full printable bracket for the NCAA tournament with all 68 teams can be found here.
Familiar Favorite for Those March Madness Printable Brackets
The introduction of the transfer portal and NIL funding has created a top-heavy college basketball world, and many experts believe this year’s NCAA Tournament will reflect that.
As USA Today’s Austin Curtright noted, the tournament has not seen a seed lower than No. 4 win in more than a decade.
“Moreover, 18 of the last 25 national champions since 2000 have been No. 1 seeds,” Curtright wrote. “The last team higher than a No. 4 seed to win the national championship was also UConn in 2014, meaning the Huskies hold both spots as the highest-seeded teams to win a title since 2000.”
This year’s NCAA Tournament will see more of the top seeds as favorites, led by expected No. 1 overall seed Duke. Curtright noted that the Blue Devils rank No. 1 in adjusted defensive efficiency and No. 5 in adjusted offensive efficiency, via KenPom.
“Duke, the No. 1 overall seed in USA TODAY Sports’ bracket projections, has been a wagon this season,” Curtright wrote. “Led by true freshman Cameron Boozer, one of the top national player of the year candidates, the Blue Devils finished 29-2 in the regular season with a long list of impressive wins over fellow projected 1-seeds in Michigan and Florida; 2-seed Michigan State; 4-seeds Kansas and Virginia; and 6-seed North Carolina (twice).”
Arizona, Michigan, and Florida — all projected No. 1 seeds before the NCAA Tournament 2026 bracket was announced — are all seen as favorites alongside Duke, Curtright added.
Tournament Brings Usual Controversy
There was plenty of controversy with the bracket, including the low inclusion of a mid-major school coming off a historic season. ESPN’s Joe Lunardi took issue with the selection committe’s decision to place Miami (Ohio) on the play-in game, despite their 31-1 record this season.
“We were all too close to a 31-1 team missing the tournament with this decision,” Lunardi wrote. “I’m going to spare everyone the histrionics since that didn’t actually happen, but seriously? Selection committee chair Keith Gill did a nice job explaining that the RedHawks weren’t actually the last team selected, despite their ignominious place on the seed list.”
Still, Lunardi said the selection committee mostly did a good job of seeding the participants — with just one exception.
“Utah State is the only team with an overt argument about its seeding,” he wrote. “The Aggies could easily have been a 7-seed, and they probably deserved to be spared the assignment (and likely fate) of an 8-9 matchup.”
NCAA Tournament 2026 Printable Bracket: How and When to Find After Selection Sunday