This is your money and your NCAA tournament bracket, so we can’t really tell you what to do with either one. But if you don’t want to throw away your cash or troll extra hard in zoom calls, then you want to pay attention to the following advice.
Whenever March Madness happens to be an annual thing, Sporting News presents an idiot’s guide to filling the NCAA Tourist Bracket.
March Madness Bracket: A Stupid Guide
1. Making double-digit seeds smart to win, unless it is. The 12–5 and 13–4 games are some of the most competitive matchups in the first round, but staying with a bracket-buster beyond the round of 32 is unwise. The lowest seed to win the title in the 64-team era (1985 to present) is eighth-seeded Villanova in ’85. Connecticut was the seventh seed in 2014.
2. Blue remains the uniform color of the champion. Blue-blood programs Kentucky and Duke are not at this year’s dance, but you can still rock with Gonzaga, Michigan and Illinois. They are all blue in their outfits and are also among the tournament favorites. Kansas and defending champions Virginia are eligible to play as high seeds.
3. If you like making pics based on mascara, Then you have some beauties to choose from this March Madness, including Antelopes (Grand Canyon), Bonnies (St. Bonvent), Gales (Iona), Gauchos (California-Santa Barbara), Mean Green (North Texas) and Rambollers (Loyola -) Are included. Chicago). But if you’re funky and functional, go with this group: Zags, Illini, Wolverines, and Jehawks.
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4. If it is a true contender then choose only your alma mater to go all the way. College basketball and football are the only sports where fans’ use of “we” is acceptable, but should not go overboard with that perk. Have a different sense, use your intelligence and recognize the boundaries of your school.
5. More than ever, 8 vs 9 games are coin flips. The tournament committee adjusted the criteria for seeding the area this year, leaning on rankings rather than geography, so the gap between the schools in the middle of the brackets was narrowed. Now, if you are using a coin to pick up all the games. . . We got nothing but “good luck”.
6. Now you cannot choose a school based on your head coach’s clothes. Coaches have exchanged wool sweaters, polos and suits and sport coats for sweats, continuing a trend that began in the NBA bubble last year. Someone else Jay Wright or Tony Bennett Sartern Splendor; All this Bob Huggins is chic now. Unrelated: “Bob Huggins” and “Chic” are words that do not occur together in a sentence, but here we are.
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7. Major conferences almost always win trophies. One of the 32 NCAA Division I men’s basketball conferences is competing in this year’s tournament (the Ivy League did not play this season). A half-dozen leagues run March Madness, though: The ACC, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC combined for 32 of the 35 national titles since 1985. The No. 1 overall seed Gonzaga (West Coast Conference) is the outsider best to buck that trend this year.
8. The number 16 seed has beaten the number 1 seed once. Can this happen again this year? Sure. This will happen? No, not even in a season where chaos has been the default state.
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