NCAA Div. 1 National Championships
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🎼 It’s the MOST wonderful time of the Year! 🎶
It sure feels good to type that! For all the new folks, ⬆️ this is how you know it's the NCAA's! As for the animal that is Wrestle MATNESS, we are BACK in our natural habitat.
This is our signature product and the one that inspires us the most. We had fun creating our new Pick ’ems and bringing MATNESS to smaller bracket tournaments this year, I mean that was cute and all, but NCAA's is what it's ALL about.
The brackets are due out Wednesday, March 12 and we will have ALL (10) weights posted quickly to give users the maximum amount of time to complete their picks!
Sponsored by: CLIFF KEEN ATHLETIC
New to Wrestle MATNESS? Allow me to catch you up to speed.
The Wrestle MATNESS NCAA Div. 1 National Championships bracket predictions competition is a FULL Championship Bracket that users pick each matchup of every round, scoring points for selecting the correct winning wrestler in each bout.
Points are amassed from each round to determine the winner of each league.
Scoring is AUTOMATIC and results come in LIVE after each match is wrestled in Real-Time.
Follow the FULL leaderboard for overall scoring of the league as well as each individual weight class. We also show the potential points remaining to give users an idea of their “comeback” chances.
How to Join a League
Once users are signed-up and ready to make picks they can join leagues (3) ways:
Start a league - Become a league commissioner. Easy to do, simply give your league a name and start inviting friends with a provided link. We handle the rest.
*private league commissioner’s are able to offer prizes for their league outside of Wrestle MATNESS
Accept Invite to league - If invited by a league commissioner, click the link provided and we route you to that league.
*If you are NOT an existing Wrestle MATNESS user, you will need to sign-up first.
Join the Open Tournament - The Open Tournament is available for all Wrestle MATNESS fans to join! At the start of the event, you will be randomly assigned to an Open Tournament Leagu to compete against other fans.
Another MATNESS Demo video brought to you by Cornell Kevin (BEG Wrestling). Very helpful.
SCORING
Come on now, we can’t give up the ingredients to our secret sauce too easily. Join the event and it will be clearly visible on a legend underneath the brackets. 😉
*PRIZES*
Grand Prize - Awarded to MATNESS Rank #1
THE BEAST XL Travel Backpack *Customized* (pictured ⬇️ )
🔗 : https://cliffkeen.com/collections/backpacks/products/the-beast
OPEN TOURNAMENT league Prize - $25 Gift Certificate to cliffkeen.com to be awarded to the winners of each Open Tournament league. That’s right folks, for the 1st time ever and due to the unbelievable generosity of Cliff Keen, if you win your league you win a prize!
Wrestle MATNESS T-shirts - awarded to Large-league Commissioners (15+ PAID users), just because… we greatly appreciate you! 🙏
Basch and Willie breakdown the NCAA’s and gives picks as well! From the BaschAMania Podcast.
FAQ’s
What is 🐷 ?
We here at Wrestle MATNESS love nostalgia and in keeping true to our roots, we use 🐷 to represent the winning wrestler of the pigtail match between #32 and #33 seeds. The winning wrestler regardless of who it is, becomes 🐷 and each MATNESS User can advance 🐷 in the bracket as far as they please. Unfortunately for 🐷, nowadays (since 2019) he or she always hits the #1 seed in the 1st round which has resulted in a staggering 0-60 Career record!
Is there a CASH prize?
No, Wrestle MATNESS is NOT a gambling website therefore we do not offer cash prizes. We will offer prizes donated by our generous sponsors to several winners for this event (details Coming Soon).
Why does it cost $4.99?
This is a service fee that goes directly to Wrestle MATNESS. This allows us to offer more FREE events in the future. This is our 51st event and we have serviced 10,318 entries to date. All 50 events prior were FREE including the 2024 NCAA Championships.
BONUS CONTENT:
WATCH HERE ⬆️ ⬆️ ⬆️ Our great friends, BEG Wrestling are on the ball w/ the At-Large Bids for the NCAA’s.
That’s our guy, Jake Herbert teaming up with Cliff Keen!