Tips for picking your March Madness brackets
Whether you're picking the men's tournament, women's tournament or both, use this as a guideline for filling out your brackets.
If you sit down to fill out a bracket and have a moment where you say to yourself "What am I doing? ", you're not alone. There are a lot of games to pick, and you don't want to simply pick the higher seed every game.
How do you pick your spots for upsets while keeping the teams that will make it deep into the tournament? Here are a few tips you can keep in mind while filling out your men's and women's March Madness brackets. 1.
Pick a 1-seed to be your champion On the men's side, 26 of the 40 national champions have been 1-seeds. That's not a massive percentage, but consider that the next most is the 2-seed with five, and you'll see that picking one of the favorites is the way to go. Top seeds are an even better bet in the women's bracket, making up 23 of the 31 champions since the field expanded to 64 teams in 1994.
2. But, don’t have every 1-seed make the Final Four Last year was a rarity that saw all four 1-seeds make the men's Final Four. It was only the second time that has happened since the field expanded to 64 teams in 1985.