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March Madness 2014: Which sites to use for your NCAA tournament brackets

Molly McHugh
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And so it begins. March Madness is officially underway, and that means it’s time to fill out your brackets. Now you could create your own, tack them to a wall, and engage in some overzealous research if you prefer the pen and paper way. Or, you could get with the times and manage it all on one site with the click of a mouse, and share it with your friends with a couple more. Being the tech-savvy NCAA B-ball fanatics we are here at DT, we know all the good spots for making brackets online, so we’ve have taken the liberty of compiling our favorites for you. Pick yours and bookmark it now – we all know you’re about to log some serious time on the site.

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ESPN

ESPN’s bracket service is free, as are many of its competitors, and allows users to easily pick teams and set up their own competitive leagues. True devotees of the Big Dance can pay for premium features if they want to go the whole nine yards, but anyone trying to save a dime will find themselves privy to plenty of content. Of course it doesn’t hurt that there is a cash incentive as well: Score the most points out of all registrants and win a $10,000 gift card to Best Buy.

CBS Sports

CBS Sports is by far one of the most popular online bracket managers, and it offers a boatload of features some sites make you to pay for. You can determine the rules of your league, talk smack to your friends, and even set up a private URL for easy sharing. Of course, what it really brings to the table is the ability to simultaneously keep an eye on your bracket while streaming live games on the site with the help of NCAA March Madness Live. As a bit of added incentive, the winner of the CBS Bracket Challenge wins a trip for two to the following year’s Final Four.

Yahoo

Yahoo has one of the more impressive systems available, especially for anyone who isn’t terribly clued in to college basketball or might be filling out a bracket for the first time. For starters, Yahoo lets you create unsaved brackets, so you can stay as noncommittal as you want. It also gives you step by step instructions through the process, eventually instructing you to choose a group – be it one with friends and coworkers or even complete strangers. It also offers a bevy of research and background info right from the bracket page, and has a Scenario Generator feature for discovering your bracket’s potential.

NCAA

Some of you traditionalists will undoubtedly favor the NCAA’s official bracket based on principle alone. It might not have all the bells and whistles that some of the competing sites do, but filling out your bracket is extremely easy, and the site features a clean, easy-on-the-eyes layout. And with all the hours you’ll spend monitoring the thing, you’ll definitely appreciate it.

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Molly McHugh
Molly McHugh
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