The Annual NCAA College Basketball Tournament, also known as March Madness, is set to begin on March 18th, 2025. This annual event showcases the best teams from across the country competing for the NCAA Division I championship title. Theronsports contest will start March 20th at the start of the 1st round when we have the 64 teams
Theronsports is offering a new concept in pool play. This concept simplifies the existing fill-out-your-bracket contests by making them both simpler and visual.
The fill-in-your-brackets contests involve little more than straight-out guessing with the potential to blow up a particular bracket with one wrong pick.
As an added benefit, Theronsports' concept allows pool participants to monitor their own as well as their competition’s progress and the ongoing status of the entire pool in near real-time.
This is done by changing the bracket paradigm that requires a participant to select all potential outcomes for the entire tournament, to selecting teams instead.
Theronsports deploys an entirely different paradigm. We use the bracket seeding in a specialized proprietary selection process that allows for the equitable distribution of tournament teams, affording each pool participant not only visibility of their competition but also their ongoing status in the pool.
This concept facilitates intense rivalries and heightens the excitement of participating in a basketball pool for a tournament that remains one of the most thrilling sports events every year.
Forget about managing your pool on paper or spreadsheets!
Now, you have a 100% online and real-time tool to track your pool standings effortlessly. Invite your friends, compete, and discuss basketball directly in the built-in chat.
To create your pool, you need to purchase access to the Theronsports platform. This access is only valid for the 2025 tournament at a cost of $25.
You pay after you register, and the friends you invite to your pool get free access. You can invite up to 20 friends to join your own individual pool.
Seeding Process: The National College Athletic Association (NCAA) will seed all teams from 1 through 16 in each year’s tournament.
The pool will commence when the 64 teams are finalized and the 1st round tournament games begin. Each participant will perform their own ten-round draft.
(Pick only 10 teams one round at a time)
Any team in the 64 is eligible to be selected as long as it doesn’t violate the following. Players can't select a team in a round lower than its seeding.
Selection process: As players perform their individual draft of ten teams, they will not be allowed to pick a team lower than it has been seeded.
For example: a 3rd seeded team may be selected on their 1st pick (first round), but a 1st seeded team can't be selected after the 1st pick. A 2nd seeded team can’t be selected after the 2nd pick and so on.
If a participant doesn't violate the above selection rule, a team may be selected more than once.
This Selection rule will be enforced in the application when players draft their teams.