The NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament, also known and branded as NCAA March Madness, is a single-elimination tournament played each spring in the United States, currently featuring 68 college.
NCAA: Basketball Bracket 2022 printable| Play in games| first four
Basketball Bracket 2022 printable:
Here is the official and printable NCAA bracket for the 2021-22 NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament, also known as March Madness. Baylor is the defending national champion. The Bears beat Gonzaga to win the 2021 title.
The 2022 NCAA tournament is scheduled to start with the First Four on March 15 and 16. The complete NCAA tournament schedule can be found here.
| GAMES | TIME | TV | CITY | VENUE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First Four — Tuesday, March 15 | ||||
| No. 16 Texas Southern 76, No. 16 Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 67 | 6:40 p.m. | truTV | Dayton, Ohio | UD Arena |
| No. 12 Indiana 66, No. 12 Wyoming 58 | 9:10 p.m. | truTV | Dayton, Ohio | UD Arena |
| First Four — Wednesday, March 16 | ||||
| No. 16 Wright State vs. No. 16 Bryant | 6:40 p.m. | truTV | Dayton, Ohio | UD Arena |
| No. 11 Rutgers vs. No. 11 Notre Dame | 9:10 p.m. | truTV | Dayton, Ohio | UD Arena |
| First Round — Thursday, March 17 | ||||
| No. 6 Colorado State vs. No. 11 Michigan | 12:15 p.m. | CBS | Indianapolis, Indiana | Gainbridge Fieldhouse |
| No. 4 Providence vs. No. 13 South Dakota State | 12:40 p.m. | truTV | Buffalo, New York | KeyBank Center |
| No. 8 Boise State vs. No. 9 Memphis | 1:45 p.m. | TNT | Portland, Oregon | Moda Center |
| No. 1 Baylor vs. No. 16 Norfolk State | 2 p.m. | TBS | Fort Worth, Texas | Dickies Arena |
| No. 3 Tennessee vs. No. 14 Longwood | 2:45 p.m. | CBS | Indianapolis, Indiana | Gainbridge Fieldhouse |
| No. 5 Iowa vs. No. 12 Richmond | 3:10 p.m. | truTV | Buffalo, New York | KeyBank Center |
Play in games:
There are two ways that a team can earn a bid to the NCAA tournament. The 32 Division I conferences all receive an automatic bid (there were 31 in 2021), which they each award to the team that wins the postseason conference tournament.
Regardless of how a team performed during the regular season, if they are eligible for postseason play and win their conference tournament, they are selected to receive a bid to the NCAA tournament. These teams are known as automatic qualifiers.
First Four:
The 10-member NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Committee is responsible for selecting, seeding and bracketing the field for the NCAA Tournament.
School and conference administrators are nominated by their conference, serve five-year terms and represent a cross-section of the Division I membership.
The second avenue for an invitation is an at-large bid. The selection committee (more on them in a second) convenes on Selection Sunday, after all regular season and conference tournament games are played, and decides which 36 teams (37 in 2021) that are not automatic qualifiers have the pedigree to earn an invitation to the tournament.
