The NCAA mens’ basketball event — higher referred to as March Madness — kicks off for actual at the moment, after the First Four play-in video games on Tuesday evening. If you are competing in a bracket contest or pool, you are gonna must get your picks in earlier than Creighton and Louisville tip off at 12:15 p.m. ET at the moment.
I do not know a lot about this 12 months’s groups enjoying within the NCAA males’s basketball event (or girls’s), however I do know that I’m making an attempt to win the bracket pool I’m in. It’s a bit embarrassing as a result of I attended UCLA and went to so many school basketball video games. I additionally observe skilled basketball fairly obsessively (go Lakers), however I’ve been completely out of it in the case of school basketball this 12 months.
Nevertheless, I signed up for a March Madness bracket pool, and naturally, I do not need to lose. I do not assume I’ll win first place, however there are some fairly first rate prizes for the highest 5, and that sounds attainable. I’m assured not as a result of I’m a fortunate man, however as a result of I’m going to make use of an AI chatbot, extra particularly ChatGPT, to create my bracket for me.
I do not count on perfection — in truth, nobody has ever had an ideal bracket within the historical past of the NCAA March Madness males’s basketball event. The odds of an ideal bracket are one in 9.2 quintillion. But I do not want perfection. I simply must do higher than my associates, coworkers, members of the family and everybody else in my pool.
So why not use ChatGPT?
How to ask ChatGPT to fill out your March Madness bracket
There are some ways to ask ChatGPT to fill out your March Madness bracket whether or not it is for the lads’s or girls’s event, so I’ll lay down a couple of eventualities, and you may go from there.
You can play it protected and follow largely favorites.
“Fill out my March Madness bracket with a statistically sound and low-risk strategy, prioritizing favorites whereas together with a couple of traditionally cheap upsets.”
You may go somewhat riskier in case you assume that there may be extra upsets than common.
“Fill out my March Madness bracket with a mixture of sturdy favorites, a couple of calculated upsets and at the very least one darkish horse staff making a deep run.”
You may go actually excessive threat, which could result in excessive reward (however most probably not).
“Fill out my March Madness bracket with a daring, upset-heavy strategy — prioritizing massive Cinderella runs, main early spherical upsets and at the very least one shock Final Four staff.”
Now that is daring!
Whatever immediate you utilize, you’ll be able to tweak it as you see match. You’ll in all probability be requested follow-up questions anyway, which you’ll reply to get a extra tailor-made bracket. You can go together with sturdy analytics-based picks or embody sizzling groups with momentum. You can select traditionally confirmed upset tendencies or go together with gut-feeling wild card groups. And there’s all the time a cinderella staff, so you’ll be able to push ChatGPT to incorporate on.
These are all questions that ChatGPT might ask you in subsequent responses, so select properly.
I personally do not need to go too dangerous with my NCAA bracket, so I’ll go for a medium-risk immediate.
This is the NCAA bracket that ChatGPT selected for me
Using the immediate “Fill out a whole March Madness bracket for me, with a mixture of sturdy favorites, a couple of calculated upsets and at the very least one darkish horse staff making a deep run. Make positive to incorporate the First Four. Use this as a information: https://www.ncaa.com/march-madness-live/bracket,” that is the bracket that ChatGPT (model ChatGPT 4o) generated for me:
Note: ChatGPT initially wasn’t giving me the right groups, so I needed to inform it to make use of the official NCAA web site with the bracket on it as a information. And I additionally needed to point out to incorporate the First Four groups, which it stored lacking. Depending on what model of ChatGPT you are utilizing, you will have to mess around together with your immediate to get an accurate reply.
Here’s the whole 2025 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament bracket with the First Four, sturdy favorites, calculated upsets, and a darkish horse making a deep run.
First Four
(16) Alabama State defeats (16) Saint Francis (PA)
(16) Mount St. Mary’s defeats (16) American
(11) North Carolina defeats (11) San Diego State
(11) Texas defeats (11) Xavier
South Region
First Round
(1) Auburn defeats (16) Alabama State
(8) Louisville defeats (9) Creighton
(5) Michigan defeats (12) UC San Diego
(4) Texas A&M defeats (13) Yale
(6) Ole Miss defeats (11) North Carolina
(3) Iowa State defeats (14) Lipscomb
(7) Marquette defeats (10) New Mexico
(2) Michigan State defeats (15) Bryant
Second Round
(1) Auburn defeats (8) Louisville
(5) Michigan defeats (4) Texas A&M
(3) Iowa State defeats (6) Ole Miss
(2) Michigan State defeats (7) Marquette
Sweet 16
(1) Auburn defeats (5) Michigan
(2) Michigan State defeats (3) Iowa State
Elite 8
(1) Auburn defeats (2) Michigan State
East Region
First Round
(1) Duke defeats (16) Mount St. Mary’s
(8) Mississippi State defeats (9) Baylor
(5) Oregon defeats (12) Liberty
(4) Arizona defeats (13) Akron
(6) BYU defeats (11) VCU
(3) Wisconsin defeats (14) Montana
(7) Saint Mary’s defeats (10) Vanderbilt
(2) Alabama defeats (15) Robert Morris
Second Round
(1) Duke defeats (8) Mississippi State
(4) Arizona defeats (5) Oregon
(3) Wisconsin defeats (6) BYU
(2) Alabama defeats (7) Saint Mary’s
Sweet 16
(1) Duke defeats (4) Arizona
(2) Alabama defeats (3) Wisconsin
Elite 8
(1) Duke defeats (2) Alabama
Midwest Region
First Round
(1) Houston defeats (16) SIU Edwardsville
(8) Gonzaga defeats (9) Georgia
(5) Clemson defeats (12) McNeese
(4) Purdue defeats (13) High Point
(6) Illinois defeats (11) Texas
(3) Kentucky defeats (14) Troy
(7) UCLA defeats (10) Utah State
(2) Tennessee defeats (15) Wofford
Second Round
(1) Houston defeats (8) Gonzaga
(4) Purdue defeats (5) Clemson
(3) Kentucky defeats (6) Illinois
(2) Tennessee defeats (7) UCLA
Sweet 16
(1) Houston defeats (4) Purdue
(2) Tennessee defeats (3) Kentucky
Elite 8
(1) Houston defeats (2) Tennessee
West Region
First Round
(1) Florida defeats (16) Norfolk State
(8) UConn defeats (9) Oklahoma
(12) Colorado State upsets (5) Memphis
(4) Maryland defeats (13) Grand Canyon
(11) Drake upsets (6) Missouri
(3) Texas Tech defeats (14) UNC Wilmington
(10) Arkansas upsets (7) Kansas
(2) Tennessee defeats (15) Wofford
Second Round
(1) Florida defeats (8) UConn
(12) Colorado State upsets (4) Maryland
(3) Texas Tech defeats (11) Drake
(10) Arkansas upsets (2) Tennessee
Sweet 16
(1) Florida defeats (12) Colorado State
(3) Texas Tech defeats (10) Arkansas
Elite 8
(1) Florida defeats (3) Texas Tech
Final Four
(1S) Auburn defeats (1W) Florida
(1E) Duke defeats (1MW) Houston
National Championship
(1E) Duke defeats (1S) Auburn (74-69)
These are some closing ideas that ChatGPT had for me.
Here’s the schedule for the 2025 NCAA males’s basketball event:
- First Four: March 18-19
- First spherical: March 20-21
- Second spherical: March 22-23
- Sweet 16: March 27-28
- Elite Eight: March 29-30
- Final Four: April 5
- NCAA championship sport: April 7
You may use this immediate for the NCAA girls’s basketball event
The NCAA girls’s basketball event is probably not as fashionable as the lads’s, however there are undoubtedly swimming pools on the market, and when you’re in a single, you need to use ChatGPT, and the same immediate to the one within the earlier part, to fill out your bracket. Although I’m not in a pool, I requested ChatGPT only for the hell of it, and that is what it gave me for the ladies’s event:
My immediate: “Fill out a whole girls’s March Madness bracket for me, with a mixture of sturdy favorites, a couple of calculated upsets and at the very least one darkish horse staff making a deep run. Make positive to incorporate the First Four. Use this as a information: https://www.ncaa.com/brackets/basketball-women/d1/2025”
ChatGPT’s reply:
Note: Shortened to only closing ideas.
This bracket incorporates:
- Favorites: South Carolina, UCLA, USC, UConn, Texas
- Calculated Upsets: Louisville over Arizona, UConn over Texas
- A Dark Horse: Louisville’s deep run
UCLA wins the title in a West Coast showdown towards USC!
