You'll find a lot of people giving you advice on how to fill out a winning bracket right now.
I don't know how to do that. But I do know how to fill out a lot of brackets. If you follow my method, you'll be done with a reasonable bracket in around two minutes. That will not save you against someone who is picking on strength-of-mascot, though.
No.1 Pick two No. 1 seeds. Advance them straight through to the final four. Don't look at the rest of the bracket in those regions. Put the rest of the 1's through to the Sweet 16. Mine: North Carolina and Pittsburgh.
No. 2. Pick a remaining No. 2. Advance them through to the final four: Memphis. Pick another to go down in the second round. Mine: Michigan State, dropping to USC. Advance the others to the Sweet 16. Time: 24 seconds.
No. 3: Mental coin-flip all 5-12 and 8-9 games. Not worth the effort. I got four No. 9's, and three No. 12's. Not likely but no time to waste.
Quickly fill out the rest of the first round. Do not get upset-happy. No more than one 13-16 team. There will be upsets, but you won't get them anyway. 50-50 the games with the middle teams.
No. 4. Upsets rule the first weekend. Favorites dominate the rest of the way. With that in mind, pick mostly single-digit seeds to survive. Any team you pick in the final four should have a chance to win it all.
No. 5. Avoid the trendy upset. VCU over a road weary UCLA? Don't go for it. West Virginia over Kansas? Not going to happen. Why? Because if 70 percent of sportswriters are saying it, they must be wrong.
Once you get to the final four, stick to the higher seed in every matchup.
You'll be fine. And at least you won't have to worry about Binghamton.
No. 3.
I don't know how to do that. But I do know how to fill out a lot of brackets. If you follow my method, you'll be done with a reasonable bracket in around two minutes. That will not save you against someone who is picking on strength-of-mascot, though.
No.1 Pick two No. 1 seeds. Advance them straight through to the final four. Don't look at the rest of the bracket in those regions. Put the rest of the 1's through to the Sweet 16. Mine: North Carolina and Pittsburgh.
No. 2. Pick a remaining No. 2. Advance them through to the final four: Memphis. Pick another to go down in the second round. Mine: Michigan State, dropping to USC. Advance the others to the Sweet 16. Time: 24 seconds.
No. 3: Mental coin-flip all 5-12 and 8-9 games. Not worth the effort. I got four No. 9's, and three No. 12's. Not likely but no time to waste.
Quickly fill out the rest of the first round. Do not get upset-happy. No more than one 13-16 team. There will be upsets, but you won't get them anyway. 50-50 the games with the middle teams.
No. 4. Upsets rule the first weekend. Favorites dominate the rest of the way. With that in mind, pick mostly single-digit seeds to survive. Any team you pick in the final four should have a chance to win it all.
No. 5. Avoid the trendy upset. VCU over a road weary UCLA? Don't go for it. West Virginia over Kansas? Not going to happen. Why? Because if 70 percent of sportswriters are saying it, they must be wrong.
Once you get to the final four, stick to the higher seed in every matchup.
You'll be fine. And at least you won't have to worry about Binghamton.
No. 3.
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