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Continue Your Bracket
~45 minutesBest for: Everyone who worked on a bracket during class today
What You'll Do
You've already got the foundation from our group session. Now it's your turn to keep going — take the approach we explored together and run with it on your own.
Keep Going
Use whatever chatbot you were working with (ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini) and pick up where you left off. Here are some ways to go deeper:
- •Go round by round. Ask AI to predict the Sweet 16, Elite 8, and Final Four separately instead of trying to predict the whole thing at once. Smaller questions get better answers.
- •Bring your own expertise. If you know a team well — you follow them, you live near them, your family roots for them — tell the AI that and ask how it factors in. See if it changes anything.
- •Ask for its reasoning. After any prediction, ask: "Why did you pick that team? What are you most uncertain about?" The explanation is often more useful than the pick itself.
- •Challenge it. If AI picks a team you disagree with, push back. Say: "I think [other team] has a better shot because of [reason]. Do you still stand by your prediction?"
If You Weren't in Class Today
No problem — here's a quick starting point. Open ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini and paste this prompt:
March Madness Bracket Starter Prompt:
Prompt - Copy and paste this:
I want to fill out a March Madness bracket using AI to help me research and make picks.
I don't want you to just guess — I want you to walk me through the key matchups and
explain your reasoning for each pick. Start with the first round.
What information do you need from me to get started?
Go Further - Try this:
From there, let the AI guide you. You can give it as much or as little basketball knowledge as you have — it works either way.
Tips
- •AI doesn't know results that happened after its training cutoff — for very recent team news (injuries, last-week performance), you may want to double-check with a quick Google search.
- •If the AI gives you a boring or generic answer, ask it to be more specific: "Which of these two teams do you actually think will win, and why?"
- •There's no wrong bracket — this is supposed to be fun.
Saving Your Work
Copy your final bracket picks from the chat into a Notes app, a Word doc, or just screenshot the conversation before you close it. That way you can compare your picks to the actual results as the tournament goes on!
General Tips for All Tasks
If Something Isn't Loading or Working:
- •Try refreshing the page
- •Make sure you're connected to WiFi
- •Try a different browser (Chrome tends to work best)
- •Ask Connor for help
Remember:
- •There's no wrong way to explore — experimenting is the point
- •You don't have to finish everything in 45 minutes
- •Ask Connor if you have questions or want a recommendation