2023 NCAA Tournament Bracket Challenge for March Madness

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2021 March Madness Bracket

All You Need to Know About March Madness Bracket

The annual men’s NCAA college basketball tournament is commonly referred to as March Madness. 68 Teams around the country are finishing up their conference tournaments in preparation for the Big Dance. Here is what you need to know about this year’s March Madness Brackets 2023.

How do you fill out the NCAA tournament bracket for the online bracket challenge?

  1. Print out a bracket
  2. Do a lot of preliminary analysis team by team record
  3. Select the winners for each game and pick
  4. Keep rail of the games and fill out the winners on your bracket.
  5. Keep following some of these historical trends.
  6. Sign up now for the NCAA bracket challenge

Selection Sunday

The 68 teams that will make up the NCAA tournament bracket will be chosen by the Selection Committee on Sunday, March 12. There are 32 conferences each holding an end-of-season tournament. The winners of those tournaments receive an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

The remaining 36 teams are chosen “at-large” by the committee. They are chosen using key identifiers such as overall record, the strength of schedule, quality of wins and losses, and more.

First Four

March Madness begins with the First Four on Tuesday, March 14, and Wednesday, March 15. The four lowest-ranked at-large teams and the four lowest automatic bid teams playoff to determine which teams advance to the First Round. All four games are played at the University of Dayton Arena, Ohio.

First & Second Rounds

The teams are divided into four regions – East, West, South, and Midwest. The teams are seeded No. 1 through No. 16. In each region, the top-seeded team plays the No. 16 seed. The No. 2 faces No. 15 and so on.

All of the first and second-round games in each region are played at one location. For example, in the East Region, all games are played at the Times Union Center in Albany, New York. All games are played over the course of four days – March 16 through March 19.

Sweet 16 & Elite 8

The sixteen teams that advance past the first weekend of play are known as the Sweet Sixteen. All of the regional semifinals and finals also are played at one location. In the East, these games will be played at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

The teams that win their regional semifinal are known as the Elite 8 and play for their respective regional championship. The winners then earn a trip to the Final Four. All of these games will be played over the four days from March 23 through March 26.

2023 March Madness tournament schedule

Selection Sunday: Sunday, March 12
First Four: March 14-15
First round: March 16-17
Second round: March 18-19
Sweet 16: March 23-24
Elite Eight: March 25-26
Final Four: April 1
NCAA championship game: April 3

Final Four 2023 Date

This year’s 2023 Final Four will be held at NRG Stadium, Houston, TX on April 1, 2023. The tournament is set up so that the team from the top-ranked No. 1 seed’s region will play against the champion of the fourth-ranked No. 1 seed’s region. The winner of the second-ranked No. 1 seed’s region faces the winner of the third-ranked No. 1 seed’s region.

When is the National Championship game in 2023?

San Diego State will take UConn to the 2023 national championship game will on Monday, April 3, 2023, at the NRG Stadium. The match will air on CBS and kick-off at 9:20 PM ET.