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The 2022 NCAA men’s tournament printable bracket: Get in on March Madness fun

Get your bracket for the 2022 NCAA men’s tournament!

Happy March Madness season, everyone!

Now that Selection Sunday has come and gone, it’s time to fill out those brackets ahead of the 2022 NCAA men’s tournament. The 68-team tournament field has been selected, with the first round set for March 17 and 18.

And if you’re looking to fill out one of your own, we’ve put together a printable blank bracket for you to use as you see fit! You can download the blank PDF file here.

Here’s how the 2022 NCAA men’s tournament bracket looks coming out of Selection Sunday with all 68 teams filled in.

Create your men’s and women’s tournament brackets at USA TODAY Sports.

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2022 NCAA Tournament Printable Bracket

2022 NCAA Tournament Printable Bracket Fill out your bracket by hand Contact/Follow @JeremyMauss & @MWCwire Selection Sunday is almost here Selection Sunday is finally here and the NCAA Tournament is back to normal with the way the tournament will …

2022 NCAA Tournament Printable Bracket

Fill out your bracket by hand

Contact/Follow @JeremyMauss & @MWCwire

Selection Sunday is almost here

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Selection Sunday is finally here and the NCAA Tournament is back to normal with the way the tournament will be played. There will be fans in the stands and the normal schedule meaning people working Thursday and Friday during the day can go back to wasting time while watching the tournament.

For those who want to fill out their tournament by hand as the field is announced, and to make your picks, below is a printable bracket you can download, and fill out.

The Mountain West should have four teams in the NCAA Tournament with Boise State who earned the automatic bid by winning the conference tournament, plus San Diego State and Colorado State are very safe, and Wyoming should be in but there is a small possibility they might be on the outside looking in.

Selection Sunday is at 6 p.m. ET on CBS and if you want to join our NCAA bracket challenge, head over to this link and sign up to compete with our staff.


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A running list of women’s March Madness teams who have clinched bids in 2022

We keep a running list of women’s basketball teams that have earned a spot in the 2022 NCAA Tournament.

Champ Week is well underway in women’s NCAA basketball, and a handful of teams have already punched their tickets to the big dance. The Stanford Cardinal are looking to repeat as national champions after hoisting the trophy in 2021, and they have already earned an automatic qualifier to this year’s tourney with a Pac-12 tournament title.

For the first time, 68 teams make the women’s NCAA tournament as a vote to expand the bracket was approved in the fall of 2021. Thirty-two spots will go to automatic qualifiers, and the other 36 spots being awarded to at-large teams.

The official bracket will be announced on Sunday, March 13 at 8 p.m. on ESPN, shortly after the men’s bracket is revealed.

Here is the current list of teams that have earned a spot in the NCAA tournament:

Loyola Chicago coach Drew Valentine was pumped to have Sister Jean back for March Madness

She’s back!

Back during Loyola Chicago’s Cinderella run to the Final Four in 2018, Sister Jean became one of the most beloved characters of the entire tournament. Well, the Ramblers will be dancing once again after their Sunday win in the Missouri Valley Conference Championship over Drake, and the 102-year-old Sister Jean will be joining them.

Nobody was more excited about that than first-year head coach Drew Valentine.

Valentine was an assistant coach on that Final Four team and took over this season following Porter Moser’s departure to Oklahoma. So, he is well aware of the aura around Sister Jean, and when it was his turn to cut down the nets in St. Louis, he gave a special shoutout to Loyola Chicago’s biggest supporter.

He held up a piece of the net and shouted, “For Sister Jean!”

At 102 years old, health is always at the forefront when it comes to travel decisions, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Last year, the NCAA Tournament’s closed bubble in Indianapolis presented obstacles, but Sister Jean did ultimately make the trip. This year, she is feeling healthy, according to The Chicago Tribune, and ready to experience another Loyola Chicago appearance in March Madness.

That’s great news because the tourney is always fun when Sister Jean is involved.

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Blowout loss to Kentucky doing no favors for UF’s tournament resume

Florida still has “work to do,” per ESPN’s bubble watch, but it’s running out of time to build its resume.

A win in Rupp Arena against Kentucky on Saturday would have done wonders for Florida’s NCAA Tournament chances. As things currently stand, UF has just one Quadrant 1 win on the season, and that was all the way back in November.

But with a 78-57 loss to the Wildcats, Florida missed another opportunity for a key win to bolster its case to make the dance. For a team that’s currently considered to be on the wrong side of the bubble, UF is running out of chances.

On the latest bubble watch from ESPN, the Gators, who are considered to be the final team among the First Four Out by Joe Lunardi, still have work to do.

The 78-57 final score in Florida’s loss at Kentucky might not have fully captured just how completely the UF defense was dominated by the Wildcats. At 59 possessions, this was one of the slowest games the SEC has seen this season. Mike White‘s team was simply overpowered on its defensive glass, and UK committed just five turnovers. As a “first four out” type of bubble team, Florida will try to play its way onto the correct side of the cut line with a road date versus Texas A&M followed by home games against Auburn and Arkansas. Certainly, the games in Gainesville against the Tigers and Razorbacks offer the possibility for marquee wins. The flip side, naturally, is that an 0-3 mark against the Aggies, Bruce Pearl’s team and the Hogs would extend the Gators’ stay in the most perilous real estate on the bubble.

UF will certainly have its opportunities down the stretch. Its next two matchups against the Aggies and Tigers are considered Quadrant 1 (though beating Texas A&M would probably drop it far enough in the NET to be considered Quadrant 2 after the fact), and Arkansas is no slouch either, being the only SEC team to take down Auburn so far.

If Florida wants to salvage any hope of making the NCAA Tournament, it can’t afford to drop all three of those games.

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Here’s what The Athletic said about Florida in a brutally honest Bubble Watch update

How would you describe Florida’s basketball season so far? “Aggressively average,” is what The Athletic came up with.

Florida basketball has spent most of the season on the bubble of the NCAA Tournament, and The Athletic took the opportunity to address the Gators mediocrity in Tuesday’s Bubble Watch update.

Once again, Florida is in the group of Southeastern Conference teams that have “work to do” before getting into the tournament field, according to The Athletic. The problem is, no one is exactly sure what’s going on with the Gators. Seemingly unable to win any of the big games, Florida has put together a respectable 15-8 record without any wins to write home about other than an early buzzer-beater victory over Ohio State.

Florida is, as The Athletic calls it, “aggressively average.” No punches were pulled for this blurb, and frankly, it sums up the feelings of many in Gator Nation:

Can we be really real with you guys? Can we try some radical honesty? Yes? Great. Here goes: We hate Florida’s Bubble Watch blurb. It’s the worst thing we do every week… we get midway through the SEC section, and then we see Florida, and a real sense of dread rushes in. It’s a struggle to find anything remotely interesting to say about this team or this program at the moment. It is fundamentally formless to us; we have no vision of what Florida basketball is, or is supposed to be. Florida is on the bubble. It is aggressively average.

It is (and we can’t make this up) the eighth-best offensive team in the SEC and the eighth-best defensive team in the SEC, which is totally fitting and perfect …. The idea of having to find new ways to write these same pieces of information at least once per week for the next month truly chills us to the bone.

While it might seem harsh, it’s an accurate assessment of Florida’s season. The Gators are 4-7 against Quadrants 1 and 2 opponents, 11-1 against Quadrants 3 and 4 teams, and 5-5 in conference play. That’s a textbook résumé of an average team in modern college basketball.

Colin Castleton‘s return could help get the team going, but tough tests against top-10 ranked Kentucky and Auburn in February will be difficult to navigate. The pattern of winning a few games and then losing would keep the Gators on the bubble for the rest of the season.

It’s better to be on the bubble than not in the conversation at all, but Florida’s average play won’t cut it in the long term.

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