Month: March 2026

2026 Printable Bracket

Here is a png image file of the 2026 Men’s College Basketball Tournament Bracket for saving and printing.  Follow the link then right-click or long press on the image to download and save.

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(This link may not work from within the Articles Page of the app.  If not, use the link from your browser.)

This bracket image comes directly from the Bracket Master app (as described here).  If you don’t already have Bracket Master, follow the app store links at the bottom of the page to download the app to your device.

When using the app to create an image of your bracket picks, know that they tend to print best when produced with the same height and width ratio as your printer paper.  The app’s default settings for image generation tend to produce a wider than ideal image for printing, so adjust these by tapping the ‘image settings’ gear on the upper-right of the app page.  Tune the settings for Show Seed Nums to “First Round” and Show Locations to “off” (toggled left).  When printing, select your printer’s “Shrink image to fit page” option, in place of the ‘Fill page” option.  Higher “Print output quality” also produces better results.

2026 Tournament Bracket Live

Update: Version 1.6.5 is now available from all app stores as of 10:00 AM EDT Monday, March 16.  It includes the official tournament bracket and a new feature: yearly in-conference and overall records on the Conference Teams Page – providing conference standings and tournament berths for all seasons.

Original: The official 2026 men’s college basketball championship bracket is now available in the Bracket Master app as of 7:58 PM EDT Sunday, March 15. This is downloadable as an ‘over-the-air’ database update to Bracket Master. Download the new bracket by going to the app’s Settings Page and clicking on the ‘Check Now for Update’ button.

A full app update wil be coming in the next couple days from your app store to include a new feature and statistics from today’s (Sunday’s) games.

Conference Standings

Our expansion of the Conference Teams Page has continued.  This year’s addition of team schedules and game results (as detailed here), has allowed us to calculate conference win-loss records, and you can view team standings for all seasons that a conference was active.  Remember that we consolidate older iterations of conferences into their most recent identity.  For example, the Big 12 was previously known as the Big 6, Big 7, and Big 8.  Why haven’t these geniuses rebranded to the Big 16, or go back to their roots by calling themselves the Big 8×2, or Big 6+10?

Big 12 Conference Standings

Anyway, use the Year Picker control to elevate a particular past season.  See the Help screen (tap upper right corner) for further usage information and limitations to our data set.