Turner Sports, in association with the NCAA, is promoting National Bracket Day.

Turner Sports, in conjunction with the NCAA, announced today the launch of a series of interactive initiatives to promote the first-ever National Bracket Day on March 14. The day is designated to celebrate the upcoming NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship and urge fans to fill out their brackets before the first round of the tournament begins on March 15 on truTV.

The nationwide National Bracket Day outreach will feature a deployment of street teams distributing brackets in major markets and on key college basketball campuses around the country, expert tips on a live one-hour bracket special on March Madness on Demand (MMOD) on NCAA.com and a larger-than-life Bracket Lounge inside New York’s Time Warner Center that will serve as the epicenter for National Bracket Day. Brackets and expert breakdowns of each region will also be available online via NCAA.com, SI.com and CBSSports.com.

Be sure to check back on Monday for my annual bracket column where I real my (sometimes accurate) Final Four picks.