March Madness 2026

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March Madness is just around the corner! Brackets will be announced Sunday, March 15. Participants in the FP&M March Madness Bracket Challenge can sign up and make any changes to their bracket before the start of the first games: March 19 for the Men’s Tournament and March 20 for the Women’s Tournament.

The FP&M Wellness committee invites all to have fun with this challenge, not just those that like basketball. This activity is a fun way to connect with peers for some laughs and conversation. Sign up now!

How to join

Men’s Bracket Challenge: Sign up for the group named FP&M Men’s Bracket 2026. Create your bracket by tip-off.

Men’s Bracket Challenge 2026

Women’s Bracket Challenge:  Sign up for the group named FP&M Women’s Bracket 2026. Create your bracket by tip-off.

Women’s Bracket Challenge 2026

Participants can sign up and make any changes to their bracket before the start of the first games at tip-off: March 19 for the Men’s Tournament and March 20 for the Women’s Tournament.

You can complete one men’s bracket and one women’s bracket.

See Instructions on How to Join the FP&M Group to see the steps to officially join the FP&M brackets and start playing!

See Instructions

Once you have logged in and created your account, create your bracket. You can change your selection as often as you’d like prior to the scheduled tip-off times of the first games.

You may choose to use “auto select” or select the teams you think will win each tournament game from the first round all the way through the championship game. You’ll get points for each game you pick correctly, with the points increasing during each round of the tournament.

This event/activity does not involve any sponsored forms of betting.

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A fun way to connect in our busy world

UW mascot Bucky Badger works a crowd of hundreds of UW fans before members of the men's Badgers basketball team enter the Kohl Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison during a send-off event on April 1, 2015. (Photo by Bryce Richter / UW-Madison)
Photo by Bryce Richter / UW-Madison. UW mascot Bucky Badger works a crowd of hundreds of UW fans before members of the men’s Badgers basketball team enter the Kohl Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on April 1, 2015

Building a bracket can feel like an intimidating or over-complicated endeavor, but it’s pretty simple and comes down much more to luck than skill—no wrong way to do it. And, all math is done for you! .

Not a basketball fan but would like to participate?

Fantastic—here are some ideas on how to pick your tournament winning team:

Ideas on who to pick
  • Best uniforms
  • Best team
  • Favorite color
  • Underdogs
  • Which Mascot would win in a fight