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NCAA tournament bracket 2027 printable, blank or with your picks

76 teams, 75 games Selection Sunday Mar 14 Final Four Apr 3 & 5, Detroit

NCAA Tournament Bracket

2027 Men's · Mar 16 – Apr 5

Selection Sunday Mar 14 · 76 teams · 75 games

Regions: East, South, Midwest, West

Region

Final Four

Sat, Apr 3 & Mon, Apr 5

Ford Field, Detroit

National champion

Tie-breaker: total points in the final Name

Points per right pick: 1 · 2 · 4 · 8 · 16 · 32 by round. Perfect: 192.

Opening Round Tue–Wed, Mar 16–17 · Dayton, Ohio, and Wichita, Kan.

Each winner takes a First Round line, set on Selection Sunday (Sun, Mar 14). Seeds 1–16 per region: the First Round pairs 1 v 16, 8 v 9 and so on down to 2 v 15.

Auto bids

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At-large

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2027 NCAA tournament schedule

Round	Dates	Games	Where
Selection Sunday	Sun, Mar 14	Field of 76	Bracket announced
Opening Round	Tue–Wed, Mar 16–17	12	Dayton, Ohio, and Wichita, Kan.
First Round	Thu–Fri, Mar 18–19	32	Eight sites
Second Round	Sat–Sun, Mar 20–21	16	The same eight sites
Sweet 16	Thu–Fri, Mar 25–26	8	Four regional sites
Elite Eight	Sat–Sun, Mar 27–28	4	Four regional sites
Final Four	Sat, Apr 3	2	Ford Field, Detroit
Championship	Mon, Apr 5	1	Ford Field, Detroit

Regionals: South, San Antonio (Frost Bank Center), Mar 25 & 27; West, Los Angeles (Crypto.com Arena), Mar 25 & 27; Midwest, Kansas City, Mo. (T-Mobile Center), Mar 26 & 28; East, New York (Madison Square Garden), Mar 26 & 28. Tip-off times and TV are set after the bracket is announced.

NCAA tournament bracket 2027: blank, 64 teams and the Opening Round on one printable page — The printed page, as the PDF prints it. Save to Pinterest

How the bracket works

On Selection Sunday a committee picks the field: every conference's tournament champion gets an automatic bid, and the committee fills the rest with at-large teams. It then ranks all 76 on one list and spreads them over four regions, each seeded 1 to 16. The four best teams on the list are the four 1 seeds.

From 2027 the field is 76 teams, up from 68. Before the First Round, the 12 lowest-seeded automatic qualifiers and the 12 lowest-seeded at-large teams play 12 Opening Round games (Tue–Wed, Mar 16–17), replacing the old First Four. Each winner takes its line in the 64-team bracket.

In the First Round the seeds in every game add up to 17: 1 plays 16, 8 plays 9, and so on. The winners meet in the Second Round, the Sweet 16 and the Elite Eight; each region's champion goes to the Final Four in Detroit (Apr 3), and the two semifinal winners play for the title on Apr 5. Which regions meet in the semifinals depends on where the committee places them, so the blank bracket leaves the region names for you to write in.

Good to know

When is Selection Sunday 2027?

Sunday, March 14, 2027. The men's and women's brackets are both revealed that day, and the tournament starts Tuesday, March 16 with the Opening Round.

How many teams are in the 2027 NCAA tournament?

76, eight more than in 2026. Twelve Opening Round games cut the field to 64, and 63 more games decide the champion: 75 in all.

When does the first round start?

The First Round of 64 is Thu–Fri, Mar 18–19. The Opening Round comes first: Tue–Wed, Mar 16–17, in Dayton, Ohio, and Wichita, Kan. The women's tournament's First Round is a day later.

How do I fill in and print my picks?

Print the blank sheet and write the teams on their seed lines after the bracket is announced, or choose “Type teams”, type them into the First Round lines, then click a winner in each game. Your champion goes in the box in the middle. Picks stay on this device until you clear them, and the sheet prints them: winners in bold, teams you knocked out struck through.

How does the scoring on the sheet work?

Simple pool scoring that makes every round worth the same: 1 point per right pick in the First Round, then 2, 4, 8, 16 and 32 for the champion, 192 at most. The tie-breaker is the total points scored in the championship game.

Sources

Dates, sites and format from NCAA.com: 2027 men's NCAA tournament schedule, dates (updated Sep 15, 2026) and NCAA: new 76-team bracket for the DI men's and women's championships (May 7, 2026), checked October 12, 2026. PrintDates is not affiliated with the NCAA. March Madness and Final Four are NCAA trademarks, named here only to describe the tournament.