Once the conference tournaments have been played and Selection Sunday has concluded, the 2025 March Madness bracket will be set! Get ready to fill out your bracket before the tournament begins next month!
The 2025 March Madness bracket
Download our free printable March Madness bracket and start your planning your picks before Selection Sunday!
Follow along with each round right up to the National Championship to keep track of Covers' 2025 College Basketball Men's Tournament Bracket.
You can also download and print our official bracket by visiting our printable March Madness bracket page. Make sure you fill out your bracket and enter free bracket challenges and contests before the tournament starts for a chance at huge prizes for March Madness.
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2025 bracket details
- The official bracket will be released on March 16, 2025.
- The Final Four for 2025 is set to be played at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.
- The First Four play-in games were played on March 18 and 19, 2025.
- Bracket submissions were due before the first game of Round 1 on Thursday, March 20, 2025. This usually occurs around Noon ET, with the official game schedule released during the Selection Sunday show.
- The first weekend (Rounds 1 and 2) runs from Thursday, March 20 - Sunday, March 23, 2025.
- The second weekend (Sweet 16 and Elite Eight) runs from Thursday, March 27 - Sunday, March 30.
- The Final Four and national championship game will be held on April 5 and April 7, respectively.
The perfect March Madness bracket
A question often asked of us is whether there has ever been a perfect March Madness bracket. The answer is simple: No. And there likely never will be.
That's because the odds of successfully predicting a perfect March Madness bracket are 1 in 120.2 billion — assuming you know a little about college basketball! If you're flipping a coin? Those odds become 1 in 9.2 quintillion, per NCAA.com.
No wonder Warren Buffett offered $1 billion to anyone who could fill out a perfect bracket.
Covers March Madness bracket guides
Once the bracket is set, it's time to fill out some brackets of your own. Use our free printable bracket to plot a course through the tournament.
Get our prediction
We'll research and release the official Covers March Madness bracket predictions. Use them to your advantage.
Enter contests
Now that your bracket is filled out enter as many free bracket contests as possible. If that's not your thing, there are plenty of other March Madness pool and game ideas to choose from.
March Madness Bracket FAQs
March Madness brackets come out immediately following the Selection Sunday show, which in 2025 is on March 16 from 6-7 p.m. ET.
March Madness brackets are due just before tip-off of the first game of the first round (the Round of 64).
The teams for the March Madness bracket will be announced during the Selection Sunday show, which in 2025 is on March 16.
