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Step 1
Identify the 65 teams that are in the tournament this year. Each team will be assigned a rank and a region to play in; this is very important information to know.
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Step 2
Draw the first bracket by making a 1-inch-long horizontal line at the top right corner of the paper. About one-line spacing beneath that line, draw an identical horizontal line. Connect the two lines at their right point with a vertical line between the two.
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Step 3
Continue drawing the other seven brackets in the first region starting directly under the bracket that was created in step 2 going down.
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Step 4
Fill in the teams that will be facing each other. In the first bracket, the 1st-ranked team will play the 16th-ranked team in that region.
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Step 5
Continue filling in the team names in region one. Brackets 2 to 8 team rankings in order will go; 8th vs. 9th, 5th vs. 12th, 4th vs. 13th, 6th vs. 11th, 3rd vs. 14th, 7th vs. 10th, and 2nd vs. 15th.
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Step 6
Draw the second region's brackets directly under the last region by duplicating steps 2 to 5.
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Step 7
Draw two more regions' brackets by repeating the process of steps 2 to 6 starting at the top left of the page and working downward.
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Step 8
Draw the brackets for round two by indentifying that the winners of each game that will go on to face the winner of the game directly beneath them.
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Step 9
Draw larger brackets the same way you drew them in step 2, only now they will be connecting the first two games together. Continue the action by connecting first round games two-by-two till you are done. Each region should have four second-round brackets.
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Step 10
Draw the third-round brackets by repeating step 9 with the next set of winning teams. Each region will get two larger brackets for round three.
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Step 11
Draw round four's final bracket. In round four you connect the winners in each region by drawing one large bracket.
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Step 12
Draw a horizontal line in the center of the page that connects the two round-four brackets. This represents the National Championship game.
