Whether you live for college basketball or pay zero attention until someone in your office starts an NCAA Tournament pool – or you have your North Carolina sports betting wagers already lined up for March Madness 2025 – this is the time of year for a bracket bonanza.
For the next few days, folks are trying to pick a winner and put together a perfect bracket (relax, you’re not going 63-0 and neither is anyone else, the odds are estimated at 9.2 quintillion to 1). But hardcore hoops fans and casuals alike are also putting some thought into their bracket names.
Here are some of our favorites:
Funny March Madness Bracket Names 2025
Baby Got Brack |
I Busted My Bracket |
Cinderella Story |
No Dunks Given |
Brack On Track |
1 Seed To Rule Them All |
Church of Bracketology |
Full Metal Bracket |
Brack To The Future |
The Last Four Innies (TV Show ‘Severance’ Reference) |
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Naming your NCAA Tournament bracket is a wide-open tableau. Are you cheering for your alma mater? Obsessed with the newest streaming drama along with the drama of a basketball buzzer beater? Just learning the game?
If you have a specific rooting interest, you might use these next bracket names to propel your fandom to the next level when you name your bracket.
And remember, our March Madness odds will help clue you in on what oddsmakers are thinking about the 2025 NCAA Basketball Tournament.
Team-Related March Madness Bracket Names
War Eagle Winners (Auburn Tigers) |
Feelin’ The Auburn (Auburn Tigers) |
Dance With The Devils (Duke Blue Devils) |
Pile of Duke (Anti-Duke Blue Devils) |
Houston, We Have A Winner (Houston Cougars) |
Across the Cougar-Verse (Houston Cougars) |
The East Lansing Legion (Michigan State Spartans) |
Stormin’ Through The Bracket (St. John’s Red Storm) |
This Is How We Purdue It! (Purdue Boilermakers) |
Spoilermakers (Purdue Boilermakers) |
The Broiler Brigade (Purdue Boilermakers) |
Breaking Cardinal Rules (Louisville Cardinals) |
Pros & UConns (Connecticut Huskies) |
Something’s Bruin (UCLA Bruins) |
In The Zona’ (Arizona Wildcats) |
You Kansas Do It (Kansas Jayhawks) |
It’s About To Be Creighzy (Creighton Bluejays) |
Going, Going, Gonzaga (Gonzaga Bulldogs) |
From Zags To Riches (Gonzaga Bulldogs) |
Kiss My Aztecs (San Diego St. Aztecs) |
Gaels Just Wanna Have Fun (St. Mary’s Gaels) |
Guardians of the Gaelaxy (St. Mary’s Gaels) |
Drake’s One Dance (Drake Bulldogs) |
I’ll (VC)U Later (VCU Rams) |
X Gon’ Give It To Ya (Xavier Muskateers) |
Breaking Badgers (Wisconsin Badgers) |
Mountaineering A Comeback (WVU Mountaineers) |
Ames Anarchy (Iowa State Cyclones) |
Hoosier Daddy? (Indiana Hoosiers) |
Everybody from perennial favorites Duke, North Carolina and UConn to relative upstarts such as Auburn and Drake have brackets named after them.
Individual players have brackets named for them too, including Duke freshman Cooper Flagg. The Blue Devils forward is the odds-on favorite to win the Wooden Award as the top player in the country; see our Wooden Award odds page for details.
Player-Related March Madness Bracket Names
The Maine Event (Duke’s Cooper Flagg) |
The Flaggship (Duke’s Cooper Flagg) |
Gamblin’ on Proctor (Duke’s Tyrese Proctor) |
Break Out The Broomes (Auburn’s Johni Broome) |
A Baker’s Dozen of Eligibility (Auburn’s Chad Baker-Mazara) |
What More Do J’Want? (Houston’s J’Wan Roberts) |
Cry Me A River (Houston’s LJ Cryer) |
About To Retire on Cryer (Houston’s LJ Cryer) |
You Can’t Get Sharper Than This (Houston’s Emanuel Sharp) |
Toppin The Charts (Texas Tech’s JT Toppin) |
Aint’ No Stoppin’ Toppin (Texas Tech’s JT Toppin) |
Sears of Joy (Alabama’s Mark Sears) |
Zeig When Others Zag (Tennessee’s Zakai Zeigler) |
And All That Chaz (Tennessee’s Chaz Lanier) |
You’re Akin Me Crazy (Michigan State’s Jordan Akins) |
Tamin’ The Competition (Iowa State’s Tamin Lipsey) |
You Kam Do It! (Marquette’s Kam Jones) |
Cold and Kalkulated (Creighton’s Ryan Kalkbrenner) |
Livin’ In A Karaban Down By The River (UConn’s Alex Karaban) |
The Kaufman-Renn Firm (Purdue’s Trey Kaufman-Renn) |
An Ike-onic Bracket (Gonzaga’s Graham Ike) |
Loyer Up! (Purdue’s Fletcher Loyer) |
Caught You Lahkin (Clemson’s Viktor Lakhin) |
The Chase Is On (Clemson’s Chase Hunter) |
In My Goldin Era (Michigan’s Vladislav Goldin) |
Much Aidoo Bout’ Nothing (Arkansas’ Jonas Aidoo) |
Ballo So Hard University (Indiana’s Oumar Ballo) |
Kylan ‘Em Softly (Illinois’ Kylan Boswell) |
Various NC sportsbook apps will have odds on every game for March Madness and a huge variety of props. If you have an account with more than one sportsbook, we encourage you to shop around for the best price on the team you want for a bet.
College basketball programs are often more identified with their coach more than any individual player. As you can see from this list, Michigan State’s Tom Izzo, Kansas’ Bill Self and Rick Pitino, the well-traveled veteran whose latest reclamation project has made St. John’s a title contender again, are just a few (oh, wait, we almost forgot Gonzaga’s Mark Few) of the coaches who have inspired some of our favorite bracket names.
Some giants roam the sidelines in women’s basketball too; BetCarolina.com has 2025 Women's March Madness Odds for you as well.
Coach-Related March Madness Bracket Names
Go Hard In The Painter (Purdue’s Matt Painter) |
Hurley Bird Gets The Worm (UConn’s Dan Hurley) |
Barnes Burner (Tennessee’s Rick Barnes) |
Bill Self-Assured (Kansas’ Bill Self) |
Fried Calipari (Arkansas’ John Calipari) |
Few & Far Between (Gonzaga’s Mark Few) |
Shaka To The System (Marquette’s Shaka Smart) |
H To The Izzo (Michigan State’s Tom Izzo) |
Definitely In My Izzone (Michigan State’s Tom Izzo) |
Honey Bunches of Nate Oats (Alabama’s Nate Oats) |
A New Pope (Kentucky’s Mark Pope) |
A Red Storm Revival (St. John’s Rick Pitino) |
Doin’ It the Hardaway (Memphis’ Penny Hardaway) |
And of course we can’t forget pop culture touchstones. Is there any corner of American life that Taylor Swift has not touched? If you thought bracket names might be exempt from the pop megastar’s reach, you’d be mistaken:
Taylor Swift-Related March Madness Bracket Names
Champaign Problems (University of Illinois’ Location) |
I Knew Purdue Were Trouble (Purdue Boilermakers) |
“The 1” Seed (Top Seed In Bracket) |
“Dear John” Calipari (Arkansas’ HC John Calipari) |
It’s A Caleb Love Story (Arizona’s G Caleb Love) |
Finally, if your version of March Madness is being miffed when that person who makes a bracket based solely on “hey, that mascot looks cool” winds up winning your office pool, remember: BetCarolina.com has your North Carolina college basketball betting guide with knowledge that might help you win where it counts: On your real-money March Madness wagers.
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Jim Tomlin has more than 30 years of experience at such publications as the Tampa Bay Times, FanRag, Saturday Down South and Saturday Tradition. He now lends his expertise in sports, betting and the intersection of those two industries to BetCarolina.com, among other sites.
