Let's Fu&king Go! You Are All Degenerates Like Me!

I write this post while sitting in a bar grinding over a parlay featuring the under in the USA -Dominican Republic baseball game and the over in the Golden State Warriors - NY Knicks game. Needless to say, I hate everything about gambling. This is the worst!

With that, I welcome everyone to the 2026 NCAA Tournament Block Squares Pool! For the next several weeks, I will be using this blog space for all communication on this pool. All of the squares for the pool are now filled, the numbers have been drawn and the official pool has been distributed to everyone. The final grid is posted below.

 

By the way, for those of you interested in additional opportunities to waste money during the tournament, my friend Pepster will be running a conventional bracket pool in this blog space. Please text me if you want to join it also. So, am I saying that gambling is good?

Back to this squares pool. 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 in the game. As an example, if the score of a game is 78-63, then the box corresponding to Winning Team Score - 8; Losing Team Score - 3 is the winner. This applies to the final score of the game, not the score at the end of regulation.
3. 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.
4. 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