2014 Office Pool Brackets

I've partially updated the men's office pool brackets for this year. The four regions are still set from last years tournament, as well as the asterisk symbols for the play-in games. Once the pairing and regions are announced and finalized, I'll update the brackets with the correct locations and add in the pairings.

Blank Office Pool Bracket for 2014

Printable Office Pool Bracket for 2014

The conference tournaments will begin shortly and the pairings for the men's tournament are about a month away from being selected.

All of my tournament brackets, results and winners dating back to 1997 can be found here.

2014 Tournament Schdeule

Pre-Tournament Events
March 16 - Selection Sunday @ 5:00 CST on CBS

First Week Of Games
March 18-19: 4 Play-In Games
March 20-21: Round One Games
March 22-23: Round Two Games

Second Weekend Of Games
March 27-28: Round Three Games
March 29-30: Round Four Games

Final Weekend Of Games
April 5: Round Five, Semi-Finals
April 7: Round Six, Championship Game

NCAA Division I Men's Tournament Dates (2014). Retrieved from http://www.ncaa.com/final-four/future-dates-sites

Automatic Bids - Conference Tournaments

Before the pairings are announced from the selected 68 teams on Sunday, March 16, there are 32 teams that will earn an automatic bid via their conference tournament or by winning the regular season outright. Here is a list of all 32 conferences with tournament dates. When the winner is determined, I'll update this post with the teams receiving automatic bid in place of the tournament dates.

Conference	Winner [record]
AAC	Louisville Cardinals [29-5]
ACC	March 12-16
American East	Albany Great Danes [18-14]
Atlantic Sun	Mercer Bears [26-8]
Atlantic 10	March 12-16
Big East	Providence Friars [23-11]
Big Sky	Weber State Wildcats [19-11]
Big South	Coastal Carolina Chanticleers [21-12]
Big Ten	March 13-16
Big 12	Iowa State Cyclones [26-7]
Big West	Cal Polytechnic Mustangs [13-19]
Colonial	Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens [25-9]
Conference USA	Tulsa Golden Hurricanes [21-12]
Horizon	Wisconsin-Milwaukee Panthers [21-13]
Ivy League	Harvard Crimson [25-4]
MAAC	Manhattan Jaspers [25-7]
MAC	Western Michigan Broncos [23-9]
MEAC	North Carolina Central Eagles [28-5]
Missouri Valley	Wichita State Shockers [34-0]
Mountain West	New Mexico Lobos [27-6]
Northeast	Mt St Mary's Mountaineers [16-16]
Ohio Valley	Eastern Kentucky Colonels [24-9]
Pac 12	UCLA Bruins [25-8]
Patriot	American Eagles [20-12]
SEC	March 12-16
Southern	Wofford Terriers [20-12]
Southland	Steven F Austin Lumberjacks [31-2]
Summit	North Dakota State Bison [25-6]
Sun Belt	March 13-16
SWAC	Texas Southern Tigers [19-14]
WAC	New Mexico State Aggies [26-9]
West Coast	Gonzaga Bulldogs [28-6]

Louisville Wins Title

Louisville will finally cut down the nets tonight by defeating the Michigan Wolverines by a score of 82-76. What a fun, exciting game it was to watch. The game was a lot closer than the final score. Siva, Smith played hard, taking control of the game. At one point, Louisville was down by 12 points to the Wolverines, but went on a 15-1 run with Burke on the bench with two fouls. Albrect, for Michigan came into the game to replace Burke for the second half and played unbelievable in the first half. At the half, Michigan clung to a one point lead.

In the second half, both teams let it all out and the intensity level was maxed. There was several lead changes, Michigan took a big lead. Not as big as their 12 point lead in the first half, but Luke Hancock went on a 14 point run to push the Cardinals into the lead for good. Beanana was the difference on the offensive boards. Just a great game all around.

As for our 2013 Bracket Champion, congratulations goes out to Robert DePrau of Rochester, NY. Robert scored 161 points and a 67% pick percentage. Just edged out two others who scored 159 points, that's one game in the first round and another pick sheet with 158 points.

Here are the top 10 pick sheets for the 2013 OfficePool64.com bracket contest:

1. Robert DePrau - 161 points
2. Melissa Cuddihy - 159 points
3. Ray Perkins - 159 points
4. Ryne - 158 points
5. Paul Kreuzer - 150 points
6. JLope - 149 points
7. MFG - 146 points
8. Skip Hood - 146 points
9. John Carlo - 144 points
10 John Paddick - 143 points

Congratulations to all of the winners and we'll see you in 2014.

Tonights Games

Two games tonight, #1 Louisville versus #9 Wichita State at 6:00 EST and #4 Syracuse versus #4 Michigan at 8:50 EST.

With that, having only four teams remaining, means there are only eight outcomes in the bracket contest. They are as follows:

If Louisville beats Michigan
If Michigan Beats Louisville
If Louisville beats Syracuse
If Syracuse beats Louisville
If Wichita St beats Michigan
If Michigan beats Wichita St
If Wichita St beats Syracuse
If Syracuse beats Wichita St