Yahoo! Sports is giving college basketball fans a triple-double of madness with mobile access to brackets, millions in prize money, up-to-the minute college basketball news, and easy search tools. Yahoo! Sports is offering $1 million for the perfect bracket and other prizes for top performers. This year, Yahoo! is allowing fans unprecedented mobile access during the Big Dance to keep them at the top of their game. The site will also offer up-to-the-minute news from the games. Yahoo!'s college basketball offerings give fans millions reasons to ‘go a little mad.'
This season, Yahoo! is launching a dedicated mobile tournament Web site (http://m.yahoo.com/ncaa) allowing fans to follow all of the action and their favorite teams from the convenience of their Internet-enabled mobile phone. For the first time, Yahoo! allows users to track their brackets via mobile devices as well as the progress of others in their group. Fans also have access to up-to-the minute scores, news, schedules, pictures and expert commentary while on-the-go.
Yahoo! is giving bracket participants millions of reasons to 'go mad,' with rewards of all sizes. Fans have a chance to win $1 million for the perfect bracket, and even if no one makes it to the peak, the eligible fan with the best bracket will take home $10,000. Yahoo! Sports' 2nd Chance game sets fans up to redeem themselves if their bracket is "busted." The game gives users a chance to begin the madness again with a new bracket after the Second Round of games is complete. The eligible fan with the best bracket in the 2nd Chance game will win $5,000 - guaranteed. And, for the second consecutive year, KFC is the official Tourney Pick'em sponsor. KFC is giving fans the ability to use their printable brackets for discounts on 30 hot wings at KFC restaurants. Fans can start the countdown to all the action with the Verizon FiOS countdown clock on Yahoo! Sports.
Basketball analysts Greg Anthony, Jason King and crew are positioned to keep the madness going with all the news that basketball junkies need, and fans can catch up on all the dish at "The Dagger," Yahoo! Sports' NCAAB blog.
Fans can also go to Yahoo! and search for all things related to the tournament and find timely answers. Yahoo! Search will feature a specific Yahoo! Shortcut to help fans conveniently find the schedule of events, scores, brackets and much more -- right at the top of the search page.
Fans can go mad trying to create the winning bracket at http://tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com. Registration is open now until the first tip-off on March 19. Tournament Pick ‘em '09 is a free game for fans.