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.

(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 ...

Houston was the biggest mover in Monday's bracket, jumping to a No. 3 seed from a No. 5 seed on Friday. The Cougars were also helped by the fact that the teams that were ninth through 14th in ...

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.

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 ...