Free Printable March Madness Bracket
The full field on one page, drawn the way it is meant to be: four regions of sixteen, two running in from each side, and the national title line in the middle. Type the teams in, or print it empty and fill it in as the games are played.
Build your March Madness bracket
Sixty-four lines, one region at a time, each region in seed order from the 1 seed down to the 16. The sheet handles the rest: it puts each region in its own quarter of the page and pairs the seeds the way the bracket does.
Round one is filled in from your list. Later rounds always print blank.
64 of 64 · bracket of 64 · all four regions filled
Paste a list straight from a spreadsheet. One name per line.
Slots on the sheet, not players. Pick the smallest one that holds everybody and the spare lines print empty.
Everything you type stays in your browser and is drawn on your own device. Nothing is uploaded, and there is no watermark on the print or the PNG.
Want the bracket to run itself?
A printed sheet is finished the moment it leaves the printer. Move this draw into the Bracket widget instead and winners advance on their own, visitors vote and predict, and a live leaderboard ranks everyone’s picks. Your players come across, so you carry on where you left off.
Your 64 teams come across in the order you typed them, but the widget builds one bracket rather than four regions, so it opens as a standard single elimination draw of 64 and the regions are not carried over. The printed sheet on this page is unaffected.
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Print a 64-team tournament bracket: 6 rounds, 63 matches, first round seeded from your list.
Use Tool →Free Blank Bracket Template
Print an empty tournament bracket with no names at all. 4 to 64 slots, every line left blank to fill in by hand.
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Use Tool →How It Works
Three steps, about a minute
1. Type or paste your players
One name per line, or paste a column straight out of a spreadsheet. Switch to a blank sheet if you would rather write them in by hand.
2. Check the draw
Choose whether round one follows your list, a random shuffle, or standard seeding that keeps the strongest apart. Byes are worked out for you.
3. Print it
The sheet is fitted to one A4 page exactly, so it never spills onto a second one. Your print dialog will save it as a PDF if you prefer.
The sheet
Why this bracket is drawn from both sides
Every other sheet in this family runs left to right. This one does not, because the tournament does not.
- Four regions, sixteen eachTwo down the left half of the page, two down the right. Each is captioned down the outside edge, so nothing on the sheet is anonymous.
- Six rounds, 63 games32 first-round games, then 16, 8, 4, 2 and the final. Every round halves the field, which is why the total is always one less than the number of teams.
- One pageA4 or Letter, landscape, fitted so it cannot spill onto a second sheet. The tool tells you the printed text size before you commit paper to it.
The field is four regions of sixteen. Each region plays itself down to one team, and only then do the four survivors meet. Drawn as a single row of sixty-four lines that is still arithmetically correct, but it is not the sheet anybody recognises, and it wastes the page: sixty-four rows stacked down one side of a landscape sheet squeeze the text to about five points.
So two regions run in from the left, two run in from the right, and the four regional champions converge on one line in the middle. Each side carries thirty-two rows instead of sixty-four, which roughly doubles the printed text size on the same piece of paper, and the shape matches the bracket on the wall of every office in the country.
Seeding
How the seeds are paired inside a region
Type each region from the 1 seed down to the 16 and the sheet does the pairing. It is worth knowing what it is doing.
Inside a region the lines read 1 against 16, 8 against 9, 5 against 12, 4 against 13, 6 against 11, 3 against 14, 7 against 10, and 2 against 15. The logic is that the strongest team should meet the weakest, and that the 1 and the 2 seed should not be able to meet before the regional final.
That order is not the one a general bracket generator produces. Build a sixteen-team draw by the usual method of repeated reflection and you get 1-16, 8-9, 4-13, 5-12 instead, which is a perfectly legal seeding and the wrong sheet. The 5 against 12 game sits where it does because this bracket puts it there, and that placement is the reason everyone has an opinion about it.
The play-in games
Sixty-eight teams, sixty-four lines
The tournament invites sixty-eight teams. Four play-in games cut that to sixty-four before the first round proper, and the four winners take four of the places on this sheet. Which lines they land on moves from year to year, so the sheet leaves them as ordinary lines rather than pretending to know.
If you are filling this in before those games are played, write the two candidates on the line with a slash between them and cross one out later. That is what the extra width on each line is for.
Pools
Running a paper pool that does not fall apart
A bracket pool is a scoring system with a bracket attached. Decide the scoring before you hand out the sheets, not after.
Double the points each round
One point per correct first-round pick, then 2, 4, 8, 16 and 32. It totals 192 points and it is the most common scheme, because it keeps a pool alive into the second week instead of settling it on the first Thursday.
Print one blank per person
Switch the fill to Blank and print as many as you need. Everyone writes the same sixty-four names in themselves, which is slower but stops one person quietly editing the field.
Collect before the first game
Set a deadline at the tip-off of the first game and hold it. A sheet handed in after a result is known is not a prediction.
Decide the tie-break up front
The usual one is the combined score of the final. Write it on the sheet in the title box so nobody argues about it in the last five minutes.
Other Sizes
Need a different bracket?
Same sheet, same print settings, a different number of slots.
Free 64 Team Bracket Maker
Print a 64-team tournament bracket: 6 rounds, 63 matches, first round seeded from your list.
Free Blank Bracket Template
Print an empty tournament bracket with no names at all. 4 to 64 slots, every line left blank to fill in by hand.
Free Printable NFL Playoff Bracket
Print the NFL playoff bracket: 14 teams, both conferences, Wild Card through to the Super Bowl, with the two byes already in place.
Or start from the general printable bracket maker, which opens with every size and format available and works out the right one from however many players you paste in.
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