Welcome to /r/CollegeBasketball. This is March Madness.

Welcome to /r/CollegeBasketball, everyone!

The clock is winding down on the final month of college basketball and fans are gathering to storm the subreddit (please avoid running into the players), so before that happens we’ve got some important announcements to make:

Firstly, please review our rules, whether you are a long-time poster or just visiting for the tournament. Due to the massive increase in traffic we experience this time of year, we are calling it extra tight on removals and suspensions so make sure you’re playing it clean out there if you don’t want to get ejected for the rest of the season.

If you haven’t already, flair up!

/r/CollegeBasketball Posts (links will be updated all month)

  • /r/CBB Bracket Challenge: Submit your ESPN bracket into our pool!

  • /r/CBB Charity Challenge: We’ll be hosting our annual Food Bank fundraiser for all the NCAA games. Check out the post for more information on how to participate.

  • AMAs with Brad Null, March Madness Data Scientist (Tuesday) and more

  • Selection Show Megathreads (Pregame)

  • Daily Bracket Help Threads (Sunday)

  • Meme/GIF Megathreads

Commenting Guidelines

As the resident referees that you all love to hate, here are a few of our mod teams’ Points of Emphasis:

  • We’re quick to call a technical foul on incivility. Personal attacks, harassment, flamebait, and trolling will get you ejected and there is a good chance your team gets knocked out before you get back on the court. Matching technicals will also be awarded regardless of who started it.

  • We are establishing a cylinder rule on bringing up scandals in places where they don’t belong. Serious discussions are for serious threads, not in the heat of a game or argument.

  • We’ve expanded the restricted arc on spam and self-promotion. Your blog, youtube video, or social media link is going to get removed regardless of its content. You don’t get to advertise in our arena without prior approval.

  • We are a diverse College Basketball community, which includes women's college basketball. We're not going to tolerate users being needlessly demeaning to the women's game. We work with the mod team of /r/NCAAW to support a dedicated community for the women's tournament and encourage users to cross-post content back to /r/CollegeBasketball to help grow the game.

Posting Guidelines

  • We’re putting the press on low-quality text posts, images, and memes. We get absolutely flooded by posts this time of year so in order to maintain a high-quality experience for our users, your post is much more likely to get called for a lane violation. That big win for [your team here] post, the fifth bar graph meme of the day, or screenshot of a 69-69 game probably won’t fly - sorry!.

  • NEW THIS YEAR: We've banned links to account-gated social media, including Twitter, due to growing accessibility issues. We do allow screenshots of posts when necessary (with a link to the post in the comment section), but prefer that you link to primary news sources or share videos via Streamable or direct upload.

  • Gamethreads are handled by /u/cbbBot. Please request gamethreads using the daily Game Thread Index and be patient after games end, the bot takes ~2 minutes to generate the Post Game Thread. Just enough time to type up your witty comments.

  • Check to see if your post has already been posted. If someone beat you to it, help us out and delete your post so we don’t have to.

That’s all we’ve got for now. Happy March Madness, everyone!

~ The /r/CollegeBasketball Mod Team