Free Printable March Madness Bracket for 2025 (Blank and with Teams)

Our printable March Madness brackets for 2025 offer the opportunity to create your own pool or contest for free! We have prepared multiple versions (blank and with team names after Selection Sunday) of the bracket that you can download and print. Then simply distribute it to all players you want to challenge and the rest is up to you!

We have both blank printable March Madness brackets and variants with team names included.

Blank 2025 March Madness Bracket

While some providers now give you the ability to fill out your bracket entirely online, there is something to be said about doing your bracket the old-fashioned way by hand and picking your own funny March Madness bracket name.

So, we’ve done you the courtesy of providing you with two free printable blank March Madness bracket in anticipation of the 2025 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. Here’s a downloadable light blank version and a preview below.

And here’s the dark printable bracket for March Madness 2025.

March Madness 2025 Printable Bracket With Team Names

And here are our printable March Madness 2025 bracket with names, both in dark and light versions. They don’t include the First Four teams, so you will still need to add them.

Here’s the preview.

And here’s the dark version.

How to Fill in Your Bracket

There is more than one way to skin a cat. I’m not sure where that gruesome phrase originated, but the same mantra applies to how to fill out a March Madness bracket.

You’re likely going to hem-and-haw over a few of the matchups along the way, so having the ability to erase is crucial. It’s also worth noting the games become more valuable as the tournament progresses.

One unconventional path to take is to pick your national champion before filling out the rest of your bracket. Working backwards is a different-yet-intuitive way to help you chart your course. Keeping track of seeding is also important. Obviously, teams with higher seeds (meaning #1 is the highest seed, #16 is the lowest) tend to be more talented and better suited to make deep runs into the tournament.

This certainly isn’t the be-all, end-all method to picking games, but, generally speaking, the cream tends to rise to the top. Every so often, we’ll see a Cinderella-like run to the Final Four, but those don’t happen with much regularity.

We have a detailed page with March Madness bracket strategies, so check this one out for more help!

How To Score Your March Madness Brackets?

If you’re running a March Madness bracket or an office pool with our templates, you need to figure out the scoring before you begin. There are many different approaches to this one, but let me highlight a few popular ones to help.

• Traditional scoring: the classic scoring usually brings you 1 point for each correct prediction in the first round, 2 points for the second, 4 points for the Sweet 16, 8 points for the Elite 8, 16 points for the Final Four, 32 points if you get the champ right.
• Swifter scale: if you feel the traditional scoring is way too steep, you can simply increase the points per correct prediction with 1 per round, so 1 point for the first round, 2 points for the second, 3 points for the Sweet 16, and so on.
• Upset bounties: if you want to make your bracket more unpredictable, you can add a bount for each upset that is equal to the difference between the two seeds of the teams. For example, if a 16th seed beats a 1st seed, that would be 16-1=15 extra points! It’s a cool way to add chaos to your scoring and incentivise people to go wild with their predictions.

Final Thoughts

Good luck with your March Madness brackets and I hope our printable templates can help you run the best contest for the tournament!

If you intend to take the game seriously and prepare for each round, why not place a wager or two as well? The best March Madness betting sites offer excellent odds and great bonuses for new players.

BetUS is arguable the best example. Each new player can enjoy a huge welcome bonus of up to $2,750 that’s even bigger for crypto users and the sportsbook hosts a bracket challenge with $1,000,000 for a perfect bracket!