A Collection of Sports Illustrated March Madness Covers

On Sunday the NCAA announced the 65 teams that will play for college basketball’s championship, affording some teams the opportunity of a lifetime while bitterly disappointing others. In recent years, to celebrate the occasion of one of America’s most beloved sporting events, Sports Illustrated has produced annual March-Madness-themed covers that cram in pictures of at least one person from every team in the tournament. View Robert Newman Design’s full March Madness cover gallery here. (At left: March 2008, featuring Kansas’ Brandon Rush. This was one of a series of covers for that year, each featuring a different player as the central figure.)

Another March 2008 cover, this one featuring Georgetown’s DaJuan Summers. Interestingly and somewhat amazingly, this cover features a typo, misspelling Summers’ first name as “DaJaun.”

March 2005.

March 2009, featuring multiple players. Additionally, this cover introduced women into the mix.

Robert Newman has served as the design director of several magazines, including Fortune, Entertainment Weekly, and New York. His Facebook page can be found here.

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