Printable NCAA Bracket 2016: Blank Downloadable Region-by-Region Sheet

Two of the First Four games kicked off the NCAA tournament on Tuesday night as Wichita State and Florida Gulf Coast punched their tickets into the first round of the Big Dance. 

Michigan and Tulsa, along with Southern and Holy Cross, will battle for the last two spots in the round of 64 on Wednesday. College basketball fans waiting for the final First Four games to fill out their brackets will have one night to do so before the first round begins. 

Hopefully that will be enough time to piece together a winning bracket in your respective pools. We can help you take the first steps to victory with this blank, downloadable region-by-region sheet. It will make you look super official compared to your friends' coffee, tear-stained brackets that will surely bust in the second round.

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If you're sitting at work or school at the moment and want to go over the bracket one more time before filling it out, we have you covered:

Bleacher Report's Adam Lefkoe and Jordan Schultz took a look at how to approach this season's bracket and which teams to watch out for:

The wonderful thing about March Madness is that it brings everyone together, whether they're college basketball fans or not. 

One of the more frustrating things about competing in these pools, though, is that there are always people who haven't watched a game all season and couldn't tell you if the Oklahoma Sooners' Buddy Hield is a guard or an actor, yet they somehow do better than you. 

That should tell the more experienced fans something, and that is to go with your gut. All the extensive research in the world can't predict the outcome of a game, and all it will do is make you second-guess things. 

Sure, it can help make some decisions when you're unsure about a few picks. If a good perimeter-defending team (UNC-Wilmington) is playing a team that relies on the three-pointer (Duke), then maybe you want to be daring and pick that upset. 

But doing that for every game won't win you much. Most of the time, the Power Five conference school is going to beat the mid-major, and the higher seed will win the game. Since 2000, only 13 teams that have appeared in the Final Four have been lower than a No. 4 seed. 

So, hanging your bracket in the balance of a No. 12 seed might be dangerous. Choose responsibly, and most importantly, don't take it too seriously.