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NCAA Tournament Pool Rules

The point of the tournament pool is to compete in guessing the who will win each game during the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament.  After you register and pay your service fee*, you will fill out the entire NCAA Tournament bracket (online) and submit it. 

For each of your picks that you get correctly in each round, you will get a certain amount of points, depending on the round.  Point values are as follows:

First Round  5
Second Round 8
Sweet Sixteen 10
Elite Eight 20
Final Four 35
Championship 50
Double Points For 11+ Seeds No

After each game played in the tournament, points will be added to whoever got the winning team for that game correctly.  Standings on this site will then be updated, and you can come back here and see how well you're doing. In the event of a tie, total number of correct picks throughout the tournament will be used as a tie breaker. If still tied, points in the Final Four will be used, followed by points in the Elite Eight moving into previous rounds until the tie is broken. If all brackets are still tied after each of these processes, they split the total return.

At the end of the championship game, those with the most points are the winners, and will receive a free Boston Celtics team autographed basketball.  If you have questions, feel free to email them to me: shane@springhoops.com.

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