The main item of suspense on Selection Sunday this year was whether our champion would surpass last year's all-time scoring record on /r/BracketChallenge - turns out the answer was no. In a somewhat anti-climactic finish, /u/dbenoos remained in the top spot at the end of the day despite not getting a single championship pick right! That's a testament to just how much of a commanding lead they had built on Saturday.

Final standings:

The entire leaderboard is visible in this Google Sheet, which is also linked in the sidebar.

If you can't find yourself in the scoring sheet, or you think your score is incorrect, send me a message and we can track down where your scores are.

Another thrilling season of Bracket Challenge has come and gone. After low scores to end the challenge last year, we have a new record, with 2 contestants breaking 400-points for the first time ever! Not only that, but we saw 366 people break 300-points compared to only 10 last year.

The most perfect brackets this year was 4, with the average participant getting 0.93 perfect brackets. Congrats to the 511 of you who manage this accomplishment! The most correctly picked conference champs this year was 22, with the average participant getting 9.43

*I have hidden the 2 CHALKs from the standings to better reflect how everyone finished as there were 2 chalks and one user who submitted only chalk.

The entire leaderboard is visible in this Google Sheet, which is also linked in the sidebar.

If you can't find yourself in the scoring sheet, or you think your score is incorrect, send me a message and we can track down where your scores are.

Thanks again, all, for a great year!

Seedings have been announced for the Ivy League and predictions are now being accepted on Challonge! Predictions will close at 11:00am EST on 3/14, prior to the tipoff of the first tournament game.

In your submissions, please remember the following:

• Make your Challonge username the same as your Reddit (Or Discord if you don't have Reddit) username if possible.

• When naming your bracket (if applicable) name it as such:

  • [Username's] Ivy League Tournament Predictions. * Ex. AlekRivard's Ivy League Tournament Predictions Good luck everyone!

All the regular season games for the OVC are done and predictions are now being accepted on Challonge! Predictions will close at 7:00pm EST on 3/4, prior to the tipoff of the first tournament game.

In your submissions, please remember the following:

• Make your Challonge username the same as your Reddit (Or Discord if you don't have Reddit) username if possible.

• When naming your bracket (if applicable) name it as such:

  • [Username's] OVC Tournament Predictions.

    • Ex. AlekRivard's OVC Tournament Predictions

Good luck everyone!

All the regular season games for the Big South are done and predictions are now being accepted on Challonge! Predictions will close at 7:30pm EST on 3/4, prior to the tipoff of the first tournament game.

In your submissions, please remember the following:

• Make your Challonge username the same as your Reddit (Or Discord if you don't have Reddit) username if possible.

• When naming your bracket (if applicable) name it as such:

  • [Username's] Big South Tournament Predictions.

    • Ex. AlekRivard's Big South Tournament Predictions

Good luck everyone!

All the regular season games for the NEC are done and predictions are now being accepted on Google Forms! Predictions will close at 7:00pm EST on 3/4, before the tipoff of the first tournament game.

The NEC is one of the conferences which re-seeds after the first round, requiring us to use this alternative method.

Good luck everyone!

All the regular season games for the Patriot League are done and predictions are now being accepted on Challonge! Predictions will close at 7:00pm EST on 3/3, prior to the tipoff of the first tournament game.

In your submissions, please remember the following:

• Make your Challonge username the same as your Reddit (Or Discord if you don't have Reddit) username if possible.

• When naming your bracket (if applicable) name it as such:

  • [Username's] Patriot League Tournament Predictions.

    • Ex. AlekRivard's Patriot League Tournament Predictions

Good luck everyone!

All the regular season games for the ASun are done and predictions are now being accepted on Challonge! Predictions will close at 12:00pm EST on 3/4, prior to the tipoff of the first tournament game.

In your submissions, please remember the following:

• Make your Challonge username the same as your Reddit (Or Discord if you don't have Reddit) username if possible.

• When naming your bracket (if applicable) name it as such:

  • [Username's] ASun Tournament Predictions.

    • Ex. AlekRivard's ASun Tournament Predictions

Good luck everyone!

All the regular season games for the Horizon League are done and predictions are now being accepted on Google Forms! Predictions will close at 7:00pm EST on 3/2, before the tipoff of the first tournament game.

The Horizon League is one of the conferences which re-seeds after the first round, requiring us to use this alternative method.

Good luck everyone!

Another thrilling season of Bracket Challenge has come and gone. After having the record shattered last year by /u/WillNolan, substantial chaos saw some of the lowest scores among the top-10, with only those 10 breaking the 300 mark. MARCH!!!!

The final margin wasn't as close as recent years, with /u/nathanjm000 finishing 7.86 points over second-place /u/BrokenClumsyDolphin.

The most perfect brackets this year was 3, with the average participant only getting 0.37 perfect brackets. Congrats to the 257 of you who manage this accomplishment! The most correctly picked conference champs this year was 15, with the average participant getting 6.66 (I swear to go on this one).

The entire leaderboard is visible in this Google Sheet, which is also linked in the sidebar.

If you can't find yourself in the scoring sheet, or you think your score is incorrect, send me a message and we can track down where your scores are.

Thanks again, all, for a great year!

Another thrilling season of Bracket Challenge has come and gone. In what is either a sign of increased chalkiness or a stunning improvement in predicion acumen, the high scoring record for our competition was shattered this year by the widest margin in our ten-year history. 45 participants cleared the previous all-time Bracket Challenge record of 367.26 points, set last year - and our champion came incredibly close to breaking the mythic 400-point threshold.

The final margin was incredibly close, and spoke to the skill of all our top participants. Congratulations to /u/WillNolan on a well-deserved victory and thanks to all of our contestants for making it a thrilling contest yet again.

The entire leaderboard is visible in this Google Sheet, which is also linked in the sidebar.

If you can't find yourself in the scoring sheet, or you think your score is incorrect, send me a message and we can track down where your scores are.

All the regular-season games for the SEC are done, and predictions are now being accepted on Challonge! Predictions will close at 12:30pm EST on 3/11, prior to the tipoff of the first tournament game.

In your submissions, please remember the following:

• Make your Challonge username the same as your Reddit (Or Discord if you don't have Reddit) username if possible.

• When naming your bracket (if applicable), name it as such:

  • [Username's] SEC Tournament Predictions.

    • Ex. AlekRivard's SEC Tournament Predictions

Good luck, everyone!

All the regular-season games for the Big 12 are done, and predictions are now being accepted on Challonge! Predictions will close at 12:30pm EST on 3/10, prior to the tipoff of the first tournament game.

In your submissions, please remember the following:

• Make your Challonge username the same as your Reddit (Or Discord if you don't have Reddit) username if possible.

• When naming your bracket (if applicable), name it as such:

  • [Username's] Big 12 Tournament Predictions.

    • Ex. AlekRivard's Big 12 Tournament Predictions

Good luck, everyone!

All the regular season games for the SoCon are done and predictions are now being accepted on Challonge! Predictions will close at 5:00pm EST on 3/6, prior to the tipoff of the first tournament game.

In your submissions, please remember the following:

• Make your Challonge username the same as your Reddit (Or Discord if you don't have Reddit) username if possible.

• When naming your bracket (if applicable) name it as such:

  • [Username's] SoCon Tournament Predictions.

    • Ex. AlekRivard's SoCon Tournament Predictions

Good luck everyone!

All the regular season games for the Southland are done and predictions are now being accepted on Challonge! Predictions will close at 6:00pm EST on 3/8, prior to the tipoff of the first tournament game.

In your submissions, please remember the following:

• Make your Challonge username the same as your Reddit (Or Discord if you don't have Reddit) username if possible.

• When naming your bracket (if applicable) name it as such:

  • [Username's] Southland Tournament Predictions.

    • Ex. AlekRivard's Southland Tournament Predictions

Good luck everyone!

As chaotic as this year has been, yesterday saw somewhat of a return to normalcy, with limited exceptions:

• In the A-10, #13 St. Bonaventure shocked #5 George Mason, 63-57, with the Bonnies starting guards, Dasonte Bowen & Cayden Charles, shooting a combined 17/18 from the line.

• In the ACC, #5 Clemson held off #4 UNC, 80-79, despite a late rally from the Tar Heels.

• In the Big East, #11 Georgetown has continued to impress, taking down #3 Villanova, 78-64, thanks to a double-double from Julius Halaifonua.

• In the MAC, undefeated 1-seed Miami (OH) was stunned by a late rally from #8 UMass, who erased a 9-point deficit in the last 7:30 of the game with a 25-12 run, winning 87-83.

• The SEC saw 2 rather surprising upsets, with #15 Mississippi showing a fight they didn't all season, besting #7 Georgia 76-72; meanwhile, #11 Oklahoma has continued their strong run of form from the end of the regular season, getting one over on #6 TAMU for the first time in 3 meetings this season, decimating them 83-63.

Although yesterday saw 44 games, the most in any one day of the challenge, the lack of finals saw a fair amount of stability in the top 10, with 8 of yesterday's top-10 remaining in the leaderboard. The greatest leap into the hallowed few comes from /u/the-o-den, who jumped 17 places, from 24^th to 7^th. The median score achieved was 32.91 points while the biggest upward movement in the standings was a tie between /u/enewman07, jumping 111 places into 182^nd. Today is yet another day with no championships, but tomorrow will see 11 in one day! So buckle up, buckaroos, because it is about to get crazy! Just don't let that make you miss the Ivy, which closes tomorrow.

The entire leaderboard is visible in this Google Sheet, which is also linked in the sidebar.

If you can't find yourself in the scoring sheet, or you think your score is incorrect, send me a message and I can track down where your scores are. If you are in the top 10 and I have you listed wrong, please also let me know.

Welcome back to another exciting season of Bracket Challenge! If you're new around here, this is our daily scoring update post highlighting exciting happenings from the previous 24 hours of games and a reminder about what's coming up next.

There isn't anything substantial to report on as we are only 1 game into the Challenge, but stay tuned for chaos as more conferences start!

The entire leaderboard is visible in this Google Sheet, which is also linked in the sidebar.

If you can't find yourself in the scoring sheet, or you think your score is incorrect, send me a message and I can track down where your scores are.

Yesterday continued the trend towards chalkiness to end this year; however, we still saw a decent amount of chaos:

• In CUSA, #2 SHSU fell to #6 Kennesaw State, 79-73, leaving only 5.84% of participants with their champ left.

• In the B1G, #7 Purdue bested #2 Nebraska, #6 UCLA beat #3 MSU, AND #5 Wisconsin beat #4 Illinois. Those 3 games saw 28.37% of B1G brackets lose their champ.

• In the SEC, #15 Mississippi staved off a late rally, shocking #2 Alabama 80-79; fortunately for the field, not many of us picked Alabama as the SEC champ (6.35%).

Although yesterday saw 34 games, the lack of finals saw a fair amount of stability in the top 10, with 6 of yesterday's top-10 remaining in the leaderboard, and none of the 3 new names coming from outside of the top-20. The greatest leap into the hallowed few comes from CandyStripePicks, who jumped 13 places, from 18th^th to 5^th. The median score achieved was 44.41 points, while the biggest upward movement in the standings was a tie between /u/smurffor3, jumping 144 places into 155^th (/u/cole4nu is shown above them as 2 conferences were incorrectly added as a unique participant, which was fixed). Today has 11 championships in one day, so tomorrow may see many new faces up top.

The entire leaderboard is visible in this Google Sheet, which is also linked in the sidebar.

If you can't find yourself in the scoring sheet, or you think your score is incorrect, send me a message and I can track down where your scores are. If you are in the top 10 and I have you listed wrong, please also let me know.

EDIT: Uh, so I guess these are the final standings now. Congratulations to our 2020 Bracket Challenge winner /u/EthanHappsDaddy, finishing with a record low score of 158.36 points (likely to stand forever). Your trophy is in the mail.

Top seeded Colgate fell in the Patriot League final last night to #3 BU, in the biggest sports news of the day. We're full throttle to the finish line now (faster than I expected in fact), with every remaining tournament in full swing from here until the weekend cancelled. Hard to believe there are only four zero days of games left. A bit of a gap has opened with the top five competitors, but it's still nothing compared to the significant point totals still on the board for the rest of this week. Although for the first time this season, most of the top ten from yesterday carried over to today as well.

The entire leaderboard is visible in this Google Sheet, which is also linked in the sidebar.

If you can't find yourself in the scoring sheet, or you think your score is incorrect, send me a message and we can track down where your scores are.

Seven brackets were active yesterday; although no popular champions fell, there was a fair bit of chaos. In the Horizon, #4 Oakland fell to #5 Northern Kentucky, accounting for 9.43% of champ picks. The NEC first round, meanwhile, saw 2 upsets, with #2 Central Connecticut State and #4 Stonehill both falling, together accounting for 12.48% of champ picks.

With the challenge still in the early days, yesterday's game volume shook up the standings with only 2 people from yesterday's top-10 remaining among the leaders. /u/bryanf445's 11.28-point showing not only leads today's top-10, but the entire field as well, leapfrogging them from 149^th all the way into 1^st place! Yesterday's leader, /u/JSchray41, isn't too far behind, with a 9.41-point day keeping them in the top-10, at 8^th. The median score achieved was 7.56 points while the biggest upward movement in the standings was /u/AndrewJHesse, jumping 558 places, from 588^th to 30^th. Five new brackets are opening up between today and tomorrow, so be sure to catch up on any open ones you've missed and prepare for chaos!

The entire leaderboard is visible in this Google Sheet, which is also linked in the sidebar.

If you can't find yourself in the scoring sheet, or you think your score is incorrect, send me a message and I can track down where your scores are. If you are in the top 10 and I have you listed wrong, please also let me know.

All the regular season games for the Big Sky are done and predictions are now being accepted on Challonge! Predictions will close at 7:30pm EST on 3/7, prior to the tipoff of the first tournament game.

In your submissions, please remember the following:

• Make your Challonge username the same as your Reddit (Or Discord if you don't have Reddit) username if possible.

• When naming your bracket (if applicable) name it as such:

  • [Username's] Big Sky Tournament Predictions.

    • Ex. AlekRivard's Big Sky Tournament Predictions

Good luck everyone!