The MCWS is the culmination of the DI tournament, where the teams compete in two brackets, with the winners of each meeting in the MCWS finals, a best-of-three series to decide the NCAA champion.

Clubs finishing 25th to 36th are eliminated. Yes, because the league placings created the knockout bracket. Unlike in previous seasons, where there would be open draws, paths were set after the ...

(Editor’s note: This article is part of the Bracket Central series, an inside look at the run-up to the men’s & women’s NCAA Tournaments, along with analysis and picks during the tournaments.) ...

The 2025 Africa Cup of Nations takes place across December this year and January 2026 in Morocco. Ivory Coast enter the tournament as defending champions after winning the 2023 final last February ...

Instead of the usual UEFA knockout draw - where any of the eight seeded teams could face any of the eight unseeded sides - the competition adopts a bracket format from the play-off stage onwards.

We've reached Championship Sunday in the NFL, and four teams will soon whittle down to two and head to New Orleans for Super Bowl LIX. While it was a fantastic weekend of football to watch in the ...

Jannik Sinner defeated Alexander Zverev 6-3, 7-6(4), 6-3, in the Australian Open final, becoming the first repeat men's champion since Novak Djokovic (2020-2021). The top-ranked Italian has ...

Madison Keys won her first grand slam title at the 2025 Australian Open, defeating No. 1 seed Aryna Sabalenka in the final on Saturday. Keys beat Sabalenka 6-3, 2-6, 7-5 in a three-set thriller ...

And then there were three. The Super Bowl bracket has shrunk from 14 teams all the way to just three, with just the AFC left to determine a champion. Unlike in the famous Agatha Christie novel ...

The SEC was conspicuously absent from Monday night’s College Football Playoff national championship game. But the conference is all over the first USA TODAY Sports edition of bracketology for ...

I've already revealed way-too-early Heisman contenders and a way-too-early top-25 ranking, but now it's time for way-too-early College Football Playoff bracket predictions. The difference between ...

Winners of 11 straight, Michigan State earns the last No. 2 seed in the bracket after a monster win Sunday over Illinois. A gauntlet looms ahead: MSU has seven games left against current top-30 ...