Printable 2026 March Madness Bracket – Make Your Picks for the NCAA Tournament

• Selection Sunday is in the books and the 2026 March Madness bracket has been set
• The NCAA Tournament starts on Tuesday, March 17, with the title game on April 6, 2026
• Find SBD’s printable March Madness bracket, below

The 68-team field for 2026 March Madness has been cemented. Inevitably, the final 68-team NCAA Tournament field left several squads feeling slighted. (Shout out Auburn, Oklahoma, and San Diego State).

SBD’s printable March Madness bracket for the 2026 NCAA Tournament is below. You can download the PDF by clicking on the bracket itself. Under the bracket, there is also a dedicated link to download the same PDF.

Printable March Madness Bracket (2026)

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March Madness Seeds by Region

How to Score March Madness Brackets

March Madness bracket contests require picks for every game of the tournament before tip-off for the first round. This includes all 63 games, including the National Championship. You don’t need both participants in a game correct in order to get the pick right, just the winner of the game. Correct picks earn points while losing picks get nothing.

Scoring varies from one contest to the next; sometimes, more perilous picks are rewarded with higher point totals, but only if they’re correct.

The most-common formats for scoring correct picks are as follows:

• Round of 64 – 1 point
• Round of 32 – 2 points
• Sweet Sixteen – 4 points OR 3 points
• Elite Eight – 8 points OR 4 points
• Final Four – 16 Points OR 5 points
• National Championship – 32 points OR 6 points

Contests that use the first option reward correct picks in later rounds on a much higher basis, making it imperative to have a correct national champion if you’re going to win the overall contest. Those that use the second scoring system put more weight on the early rounds and contestants can generally finish near the top even if they lose their champion early in the tournament.

In the case of a tie at the end of a bracket contest, organizers generally have all participants guess the total points in the title game as the tiebreaker. SBD’s printable bracket provides a dedicated box for the tiebreaker score.

2026 March Madness Schedule

Betting Advice For Your Bracket Picks

SBD has legions of NCAA Tournament betting guides to help you fill out your brackets. Before filling out the first-round picks, be sure to check out the 11 March Madness Betting First-Round Trends You to Know. It sets out the updated overall records for all seeds in the first round.

When you get to your second-weekend picks, check out SBD’s March Madness Sweet 16 & Elite 8 Betting Trends. While our Final Four Trends set out the betting trends to know for the third and final weekend of the NCAA Tournament. .

Finally, make sure you know the seven attributes of How to Pick March Madness Winners. Getting one correct finalist correct on your bracket is hard enough, but naming the overall champ is key to winning your bracket contest.