Name: UWNKY Bracket Challenge at Sandy's Racing & Gaming
Start: 2026-04-06T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Sandy's Racing & Gaming

UWNKY Bracket Challenge at Sandy's Racing & Gaming

NCAA Championship Game Watch Party
Get in the Game with United Way of Northeast Kentucky’s Final Four Bracket Challenge
Join us Monday April 6, 2026, at Sandy’s Racing & Gaming for an exciting evening of basketball, food, drinks, and community as we gather to watch the Men’s NCAA National Championship Game.
Doors open at 7:00 PM, giving you time to connect, enjoy food and beverages, and get settled before tip-off at 8:30 PM. The event will continue through the end of the game.
Get in the game with United Way of Northeast Kentucky’s Final Four Bracket Challenge. Fill out your bracket, lock in your picks before noon on Thursday March 19, 2026, and follow the leaderboard throughout the tournament.
Buy your bracket and ticket for the watch party on the Zeffy link. The email collected on Zeffy will be the email we use to send the ESPN group link and password you need to complete your bracket; watch for our email it will hit your inbox after selections Sunday March 15, 2026 around 8pm. Remember all brackets must be entered into our ESPN group link by 11:59am on Thursday March 19, 2026.
The overall bracket winner* will receive a cruise giveaway and a bracket championship ring for bragging rights. We will also host a raffle featuring Pappy Van Winkle a highly coveted ultra-premium Bourbon by Buffalo Trace Distillery.
Your ticket includes food and drinks for the evening, and every entry helps support initiatives that benefit children, families, and individuals across our region.
Come ready to have a good time, cheer, compete, and make a difference.
The ESPN Bracket Challenge determines winners by awarding points for each correctly picked game, with point values increasing in later rounds (10 points in round 1 up to 320 in the final), totaling 1,920 possible points. The entry with the highest total points wins, with tiebreakers decided by the closest predicted score of the championship game.