NCAA bracket on the front?

To make it big enough to be useable, it might become too big to run as dominant art on the front. I like the Good Doctor's idea. Even a one-page bracket with a front page refer would work.

 

I listed all the tourney teams on the front, with jerseys of the No. 1 seeds (with the jersey number as "1") topping each region.

 

Anyone use helmets?

 

We're putting the main NCAA tourney story on the front, and on the jump page on the back (color page), we're running the bracket, along with another NCAA story.

 

Half page here, section back.

 

Not sure that it belongs on the front. Hell, I don't think our paper isn't even doing anything fancy for this one. It's probably going to go on Page 7, right where it belongs, tucked in the "Where the local team is headed" story.

A full jacket - or even better, a special tab - would be nice to see, especially if it's done right. But those are such a rarety these days, anything but deep inside would be unnecessary.

 

Good looking out...putting on agate page right now

 

I did it once on a long-ago Monday when there literally wasn't any space anywhere else in the section to put it. I stared and stared at the thing for a long time, finally said yo my desk guy, "what the hell."

It worked OK.

 

At least a half page - inside. Put story of local school(s) up front with photo and NCAA refer. If no local school in the tourney, then an overview and jump inside to the page(s) with brackets.

 

Rack 'im.

BTW, why does it have to be on the front page to be in color? heh-heh.

 

It's probably different now, in the Internet age, when you can print out a decent bracket no problem. But I'd bet that back in the day the papers that ran the half-page bracket outsold those that ran the quarter-page bracket 2-to-1 today.

 

Whatever size fits best on the most copy machines is the best size to run it.