Collectors who love college hoops have gotten their wish—a card set devoted to the NCAA Basketball Tournament. 2014-15 Upper Deck March Madness arrived in stores Wednesday, featuring cards of players and famous moments from the tournament’s history. A full checklist of cards is linked below.
It’s the first product of its kind and likely one of the last college issues from Upper Deck after Panini acquired rights to nearly every NCAA school late last year.
The March Madness product will include the likes of Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Bill Russell, Christian Laettner, Grant Hill, Keith Smart, Bill Walton, Shabazz Napier, Aaron Gordon, Hakeem Olajuwon, Jerry Tarkanian, Nik Stauskas, Shaquille O’Neal and other players and coaches.
Each box will have two autographs but one of the draws will also be an interactive game that could net prizes if you draw the right Bracketology card. 24-pack, five-card boxes are being offered online for around $90.
There are 200 base cards in the regular set, but half are short prints.
Autographs appear to be on stickers according to promotional material released by Upper Deck and will include:
Regular Cards Autograph Parallel
Regular Cards SP Autograph Parallel
Hi-Series Autographs (cards #201-215)
Tournament Stars Dual Autographs
Most Outstanding Player Autographs
Tournament Champs Autographs
Base set inserts and parallels include
There will be dual autographs cards and themed autographs like:
Tournament Stars Duals
Most Outstanding Player Autographs
Tournament Champs Autographs
There will be six Bracketology cards in a box of 2014-15 Upper Deck March Madness and the game will work like this:
Scratch off the game card to reveal the NCAA Tournament bracket location (i.e. Arizona Wildcats; #1 Seed; West Region)
Watch the NCAA Tournament selection show to see if the seed on your game card matches the actual seed received by the team. If there’s a match, your game card is live.
If the team on your card makes the NCAA Sweet 16, the prize is a 12-card exclusive March Madness exclusive pack featuring Bill Russell, Christian 
Laettner, Jerry Stackhouse, Shabazz Napier, Bill Walton, 
David Thompson, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Grant Hill, Larry Johnson, David Robinson and Michael Jordan. One of the cards in this group of 12 will be autographed (Upper Deck says there will be 160 potential winners).
If you’re holding the card of a team that makes the Final Four, you’ll win a six-card exclusive NCAA March Madness pack with Bill Russell, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Larry Johnson, Grant Hill or Michael Jordan. One of the cards will be signed (40 potential winners).
If you hold a card from the eventual NCAA championship, you’ll win a Michael Jordan autographed item that shows him cutting down the net with North Carolina’s 1982 championship team (10 potential winners).
You can see 2014-15 Upper Deck March Madness for sale on eBay here.
2014-15 Upper Deck NCAA March Madness Collection Basketball Checklist
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