The 2026 men's March Madness bracket is out and experts already have predictions about which teams have best chance to win NCAA Tournament.

The odds of submitting a perfect bracket are one in 9.2 quintillion if you flip a coin or guess on every pick.

Below is a different way to look at the traditional NCAA Tournament bracket. The first round comes down to four sets of these eight pairings. These 2,496 squares below represent all the teams — not counting the play-in teams — that have competed in the tournament from 1985 through 2024. Unable to view our graphics? Click here to see them.

Follow along all tournament long as we cover all the upsets, perfect brackets and more for the entirety of the NCAA tournament.

Pick a perfect tournament bracket, and you could win $1 billion. Even without perfection, Kalshi is awarding $1 million to the top bracket, plus another $1 million to charity.

Chances are your March Madness bracket is already busted. As of 6:45 p.m. ET on Friday, just 1,461 perfect ESPN brackets remained out of 26,567,887 submitted. This amounts to a catastrophically small 0.

The lone New Jersey wrestler who is a No. 1 seed is on the top line of the 149-pound bracket at the 2026 NCAA Wrestling Championships. Penn State junior Shayne Van Ness, a former Blair wrestler and two-time All-American,

Filling out a perfect "March Madness" bracket is many times less likely than winning the Powerball lottery, the National Collegiate Athletic Association: The odds of filling out a perfect bracket is 1 in 9.2 quintillion, the NCAA says — 1 quintillion is 1 followed by 18 zeros.