Welcome to the BBC NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament Pool

2025 Basketball Bracket Challenge

Updates will be posted
when the tournament starts.

Last year's results will be left on the site
until this year's tournament starts
to let you see what things will look like
as the tournament progresses.

To our returning players, welcome back. You have the opportunity to get a quick start by going to CBS Sports and filling out your bracket as soon as it is release Sunday March 17.

NEW TO THIS POOL?

Let me welcome you and encourage you to join the party. We're always looking to grow the number of players, and if you have $5.00 you are willing to part with, you're just the kind of person we are looking for.

YOU ARE LOOKING
LIVE!

at the humble web site for the
Basketball Bracket Challenge
as we await the tipoff to the
2024 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament.

Come back to this site during the tournament for stats, standings
and the sort of tournament analysis you simply will not find anywhere else.

You know the squares game people play for the super bowl. You buy a square, and at the end of each quarter you take the last digit of each teams score and map it against a grid to see who won. Now imagine doing that for all sixty three NCAA tournament games. Every single game is a chance to win.

Entry Fee is $10 a square. You can buy squares on the SQUARES page.

PRIZE MONEY

2023 Prize Money results are listed below. The number prize paying positions and the percentages will vary based on number of entries. Basic rule of thumb I follow is about 10% of the pool ends up in the prize money and the champion earns about half. As the pool gets larger, I'll have to see if that still works.

Once I know the number of entries and have collected from everyone, I'll announce the payout amounts. Prize money is only distributed from prize money collected. Hasn't been a problem in the past... appreciate you not being the first.

Place	Percent	Amount	Winner
1st	50%	$145	John Neltner
2nd	20%	$58	Jennifer Cleaveland
3rd	15%	$44	Zain Aziz
4th	10%	$29	Mike King
5th	5%	$14	Chris Jackson
Prize amounts are rounded to the nearest dollar. I'm not dealing with coins anymore than I have to.

AD BLOCKER

Having trouble with the Ad Blocker on CBS Sports. You can dismiss it by clicking on "I'll Fix It Next Time". But CBS does keep track of how may times you use that. if you lose that option, clear your cookies to reset it.

They are not the first site I've seen resort to this. I'm not happy about it, but not inclined to leave CBS over it either.

SITE VIEWING RULES

The following rules apply to emails too!

1. I write. I don't proof. I don't edit
You will find misspellings, typos, grammatical errors and missing words in almost every article. If you simply treat this as part of the folksy charm of my site, it will be a more pleasurable experience for both of us.

2. Use the Google Machine To Decipher Cryptic References
I'm a big fan of off the wall references. If you suspect your missing the joke, see if you can find it on google.

3. I Mean You No Harm
I promise any jokes made are in fun, with no intent to offend or hurt feelings. But you know how color blind people can't tell the difference between greens and reds... well I can't always see the "line of appropriateness", and before I know it I'm on the wrong side.