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Are you the next Champion Bracketologist?
Only one way to find out! Join Campus REC’s bracket pool for the 2024 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship, and try your hand at bracketology.
Everyone is invited to play: students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members. Whether you’re a hoop junkie or a basketball newbie, this is your moment. Take your shot.
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JOIN Now
Click here to create an account on RunYourPool and join the UAZ Campus REC pool. It’s FREE to join and to play. -
PLAY Sunday, March 17
Team selection starts at 3 p.m. MST, after which the picksheet opens. Make your picks and submit your bracket by the deadline. -
DEADLINE Thursday, March 21
Picks must be completed before 9 a.m. MST. That’s when the first games tip-off. Prepare to get swept up in the madness.
THE PRIZE
A duffle bag full of swag, an engraved trophy and (of course) bragging rights as the official 2024 UAZ Campus REC Champion Bracketologist!
The Champion Bracketologist will be announced and celebrated on Tuesday, April 9.
To earn the title, you gotta get in the game.
Join now
Rules
- Members pick all 63 games of the NCAA Tournament.
- The pick deadline is set to March 21, 2024 at 12:00 PM ET.
- Each participant is limited to a single entry in the contest.
- Points are awarded for each correct pick.
- Points values increase as the tournament progresses, as follows:
- Play-in games are not included or scored
- First Round = 1 point
- Second Round = 2 points
- Sweet 16 = 4 points
- Regional Final (Round of 8) = 8 points
- National Semifinal (Last Four) = 16 points
- Championship = 32 points
- The pool does not use a seed point bonus. Correct picks will be awarded the points assigned for each round.
- The tie-breaker is the combined number of points scored in the Championship game. Each member must enter a tie-break value when they make their picks.
- The winner is the entry with the most points at the end of the NCAA Tournament.