63 Shining Moments! Welcome to the 2024 Block Square Pool

Happy Selection Sunday everyone and welcome to the 2024 NCAA Tournament Block Squares Pool! This game is played for entertainment purposes only. For the next three weeks, this space will be used to communicate administration. The brackets will be unveiled later today and I am sure that we are all excited for another wild tournament. All of the blocks for the pool are filled, and the numbers have been drawn. The official pool has been distributed to everyone and is posted below.

The rules for this game are as follows: 

1. Each entry will keep its numbers for the entirety of the tournament. We will not re-draw numbers.
2. A winning block is one that has a two number combination that matches the last digits of the final score for each team in the game. As an example, if the Home team wins a game 78-63, then the box corresponding to Home 8; Away 3 is the winner. This applies to the final score, not the score at the end of regulation.
3. For game tracking, “Home” is defined as the team with the lower number seed and “Away” as the team with the higher number seed. As an example, if a 4-seed is playing a 13-seed then the 4-seed is the Home team and the 13-seed is the Away team.
4. As we get later in the tournament, there is the possibility of teams with the same tournament seed playing each other. In these circumstances, the higher ranked team as established at the start of the tournament will be designated the Home team. We will be using the overall seeding as published at CBS sports once the bracket has been unveiled.
5. I will post an updated “leaderboard” shortly after each day of play that links to the official game scores and lists winners in this pool.
6. All winnings will be paid out at the end of the tournament.

The pool will pay out winners for all 63 games of the main tournament played starting with the first game on Thursday, March 21^st and finishing in Glendale AZ with the Championship Game. The Play-In games are not part of this tournament pool. The payouts per round will be:

• 1^st Round Games - 25 each
• 2^nd Round Games - 50 each
• Sweet 16 Games - 100 each
• Elite 8 Games - 200 each
• Final 4 Games - 400 each
• Championship Game - 1000

Good luck everyone! I am looking forward to an exciting tournament.

Your commissioner

Sinickal