A lot of people say the hardest thing to do in sports is hit a baseball or softball. PHOOEY! Absolute malarkey, I tell you. The hardest thing to do in sports is pick a perfect March Madness bracket.

Another thrilling opening weekend of March Madness is in the books, and now the 2026 NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 bracket is set. Three out of the four No. 1 seeds advanced, with defending champion ...

Out of the 40 million (!!!) brackets put together for men's and women's March Madness as the NCAA tournaments have reached the Sweet 16, there is just ONE that's perfect. It belongs to Otto ...

Picking NCAA Tournament brackets are hard. Usually they end up in the trash can by the end of the first weekend. So keep that in mind when taking a look at how our staff fared through March Madness' ...

Nebraska forward Braden Frager points during the second half against Troy in the first round of the NCAA college basketball tournament, Thursday, March 19, 2026, in Oklahoma City. AP New York Post may ...

This story is part of the KXAN Data Hub, where numbers help tell the whole story. AUSTIN (KXAN) — It’s March, and you know what that means — time for some madness! This year, more than 26 million ...

Wayne Staats is a senior interactive producer for NCAA.com. His work has also appeared in the Augusta Chronicle, augusta.com and Land of 10. He is a graduate of Penn State University. TNT Sports & CBS ...

The 2026 NCAA Tournament rolls into the Sweet 16 this week, with Thursday featuring a pair of Big Ten squads facing off against teams from Texas. Purdue vs. Texas tips off at 7:10 p.m. ET, with ...

Update: The third day of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament is underway, and top-seeded Duke is one of the teams that has punched a ticket to the Sweet 16. High Point’s Cinderella run to the Sweet ...

And then there was one. Going into the Sweet 16, there was one perfect bracket left on Monday night for the women's NCAA Tournament among the millions of entries in the ESPN bracket challenge and in ...

The goal is always perfection when filling out a bracket, but no one has ever emerged flawless when March Madness is over. The Holy Grail of sports betting is filling out a perfect March Madness ...

Mar 26, 2025; Newark, NJ, USA; General view of a NCAA March Madness logo during a practice sessions in preparation for an East Regional semifinal games at Prudential Center. Mandatory Credit: Vincent ...