Pool eligibility
NCAA Basketball Confidence Pool is a Pools product and all participants must be 18 or older.
Eligible slate
The weekly slate uses the AP Top 25 frozen at Monday 12:00 AM Central Time and includes games involving at least one team from that snapshot.
Confidence values
If there are N eligible games, entrants assign the values 1 through N exactly once. The highest value represents the entrant's strongest pick.
Scoring
A correct pick earns its assigned confidence value. An incorrect pick earns 0. A void game earns 0 and is removed from the maximum possible weekly score.
Locks
The team pick and confidence value lock together at that game's scheduled tipoff. Later games and unused confidence values remain editable until their games lock.
Standings
Cumulative confidence points determine standings.
Tiebreaks
Recommended order: most correct picks, highest single-week score, most recent scoring-period score, published numeric tiebreak, then Commissioner decision.