NCAA Bracket 2012: Printable Bracket For March Madness

The 2012 NCAA Tournament started with 68 team and, as March Madness lived up to its name, upsets in the early rounds busted countless brackets across the country. Eventually four teams made the trip to New Orleans and, after a wild Saturday, only two were left standing for Monday’s national championship game.

Relive the tournament by downloading the final update to our printable 2012 NCAA Bracket (PDF).

You can chart both teams’ routes to the national final in our printable 2012 NCAA Tournament bracket (PDF), but Kentucky’s been by far the most impressive team. The Wildcats have four double-digit wins, and their only single-digit win came in an eight-point triumph over Louisville on Saturday, while Kansas has just one double-digit win, and has come from behind late in wins over Purdue and Ohio State.

For more on the 2012 NCAA Tournament bracket, poke around SB Nation’s NCAA Tournament hub for tons of analysis on who will make it all the way to New Orleans and the Final Four.

The tournament concludes on Monday night in New Orleans. Kentucky has been the big favorite since the start of the tournament, but they looked beatable against Louisville, and Kansas could give them a very tough game in the final.

For more on the 2012 NCAA Tournament bracket, poke around SB Nation’s NCAA Tournament hub for tons of analysis on who will make it all the way to New Orleans and the Final Four.

Printed bracket in hand, make your final predictions for the three remaining games. Will the Battle for Kentucky be won by the Cardinals or the Wildcats? And who will the winner play in the championship game: the Buckeyes or the Jayhawks?

Get ready for a solid Saturday of college hoops.

The Final Four of the 2012 NCAA Tournament is set following Sunday’s action, with Kentucky, Louisville, Ohio State and Kansas the only teams remaining out of the original field of 68 teams. Check out SB Nation’s updated printable 2012 NCAA Tournament bracket (PDF) to see how they got there.

Whoever wins will move on to the 2012 NCAA Tournament Championship Game set to tip off the following Monday night.

For more on the 2012 NCAA Tournament bracket, poke around SB Nation’s NCAA Tournament hub for tons of analysis who will make it all the way to New Orleans and the Final Four. And for more on the Sweet 16, check out our Sweet 16 StoryStream.

Following Friday night’s games in the NCAA Tournament, the bracket is all filled out for the Elite Eight. The regional finals begin on Saturday, with the teams that were victorious on Thursday night playing for a spot in the Final Four.

For more on the 2012 NCAA Tournament bracket, poke around SB Nation’s NCAA Tournament hub for tons of analysis who will make it all the way to New Orleans and the Final Four. And for more on the Sweet 16, check out our Sweet 16 StoryStream.

The 2012 NCAA Tournament has just 11 games remaining, and four Sweet 16 contests on Thursday night filled out half of the Elite Eight.

Our updated printable 2012 NCAA Tournament bracket (PDF) reflects those changes: Syracuse and Ohio State have moved on in the East, leaving Wisconsin and Cincinnati behind, and Louisville and Florida advanced in the West, leaving Michigan State and Marquette with neat black lines struck through their names.

After the nonstop mayhem of the first four days of the NCAA Tournament, the world has gone through horrible March Madness withdrawal the past three days. Symptoms include anxiety about bracket pools, constant checking of TV listings just to make sure there are no games that night, and severe depression and/or Tebowmania.

The 2012 Printable NCAA Tournament Bracket is updated and available now. View the full Sweet 16 TV schedule.

Sunday’s NCAA Tournament action was light on massive upsets but, thanks to the insanity that was the first round of the tournament, four double-digit seeds are in the Sweet 16. There are, coincidentally, also four teams from the state of Ohio remaining in the tournament. Cincinnati, Ohio and Xavier all won on Sunday, joining Ohio State in the regional semifinals.

The 2012 Printable NCAA Tournament Bracket is updated and available now. View the full Sweet 16 TV schedule.

At a glance, Saturday’s action paled in comparison to the carnage that took place on Friday. The first day of the third round of the 2012 NCAA Tournament featured exactly zero upsets, as the higher seed prevailed in all eight games played. Those with the luxury of actually watching the games play out (say, sports bloggers) got their fill of excitement however, what with the last minute suspensions, photobombs, historic performances, and of course, some pretty darn good basketball games.

We understand if you were a little too busy to catch everything that happened, so we’ve taken the liberty of updating our 2012 NCAA Tournament Bracket for you. Feel free to thank us whenever.

Friday was everything Thursday wasn’t, more than making up for the lackluster opening day of the 2012 NCAA Tournament. The madness was back and in full swing as double-digit seeds and upsets ruled the day. You bracket is busted by now, and that’s okay. Just enjoy the ride, or perhaps start all over again.

The 2012 NCAA Tournament Bracket is updated and available now.

Well, that’s about it for anyone hoping that they could maintain a perfect bracket through the first weekend. After a day and a half of the favorites ruling the NCAA Tournament, we finally had a big upset. This wasn’t a 5-12 game or a 6-11, it was No. 15 Norfolk State knocking off No. 2 Missouri, a trendy pick to make a deep March Madness run.

The latest Printable 2012 NCAA Tournament Bracket is updated, so you might as well start all over again.

You were expecting March Madness. We all were expecting plenty of wild action, buzzer beaters and everything else that defines the NCAA Tournament on Thursday, its opening day. But it never came, and only two lower-seeded teams -- Colorado and VCU -- won. The rest of the day was defined by its chalkiness.

The latest 2012 Printable NCAA Tournament Bracket is live and updated.

EDIT: Link is now updated with all of Thursday’s results.

Thursday’s games are not yet over, but we do have a printable update to pass along. The word of the day has been chalk, with only VCU advancing as a lower seed. And even that wasn’t a massive surprise, but at least it did provide some fun action in the early evening.

The First Four games are in the books and the NCAA Tournament is down to 64 teams, a nice even number for a bracket. With those expansion games out of the way, the best part of March Madness begins. With 32 games in two days -- 16 each day -- there’s plenty of action to track.

Be sure to grab the updated 2012 Printable NCAA Tournament Bracket before March Madness gets under way.

On the downside, that means the bracket everyone printed out earlier this week is already outdated. On the bright side, the team at SB Nation headquarters has already updated their bracket to include the changes!

Here’s the 2012 NCAA Tournament printable bracket, updated through March 13.

The 2012 NCAA Tournament field has only been out a short amount of time, but you’re probably all ready to start filling things out, narrowing down picks and prepping that perfect bracket. It’s the most wonderful time of the year for college basketball fans, and with the field now all set the real work begins.

Here’s the 2012 NCAA Tournament printable bracket, updated through March 14.

The 2012 NCAA Tournament bracket was announced on CBS on Sunday afternoon, with 68 happy teams officially earning their trips to March Madness. The bracket is broken down by region, with the East, South, West and Midwest splitting the field into 16-team pods.

The four No. 1 seeds, announced first, were Kentucky, Michigan State, North Carolina and Syracuse. All four were projected to be No. 1s, with Michigan State earning the final spot by virtue of its Big Ten Tournament Championship.

Since the moment of truth is nearly upon us, here is my final projected bracket of 2012. My analysis, focused on the final pair of spots on the top line and a few changes at the bottom of the at-large pool from this morning’s projection, follows.

Teams that have clinched automatic bids appear in all caps.

If you just can’t wait for a filled-in NCAA bracket, there’s always the blank brackets that can be marked off as teams are announced. On Sunday, the 2012 NCAA Tournament field will be announced in a live selection show on CBS, just about an hour from now. So get your brackets ready and prepare for March Madness.

To follow along with the Selection Sunday show, head over to this StoryStream. There you’ll find the latest updates from Selection Sunday, the regional brackets as they’re announced and, for those waiting for the bids to come in, one final bracketology update.

The moment of reckoning is almost upon us. Here’s a rundown of some of the major moves made since Saturday morning’s projection, featuring the TV information for today’s four conference championship games, the final ones of 2012.

With that information out of the way, here’s my penultimate projection.

Here’s a recap of some of the major events since Thursday’s projection.

The full bracket follows. I completely scrubbed it on Thursday afternoon and evening, so you should notice a few seeding adjustments.

It’s Thursday of Championship Week, which means that just about every conference that is likely to earn multiple bids to the 2012 NCAA Tournament will be engaged in elimination play (except for the Atlantic 10, which resumes with quarterfinals Friday). That means Thursday morning’s bracket is, in all likelihood, the final one that won’t see significant movement, both in terms of the bubble and seeding, between now and Selection Sunday.

Here’s a recap of some of the key pieces of bracket news since Wednesday’s projection.

Saint Mary’s got exactly what it was looking for with a 78-74 win over Gonzaga in the 2012 West Coast Conference Tournament final on Monday night. It just took overtime for the Gaels to take the latest round in one of college basketball’s best rivalries and claim an automatic NCAA Tournament berth.

For more Gonzaga coverage, check out The Slipper Still Fits.