NCAA Tournament Tips
I have filled out numerous brackets over the years. March Madness has become my favorite time of year, outside football season of course. So I am, for lack of a better word, and expert in the area of bracketology. If by expert, you mean dumb-ass, that is.
So here are my tips for you when it comes to picking your bracket to beat me in the contest, rules of which can be found here.
1. If your going to pick an upset in the first round, always make it a 12 seed over a 4 seed.
This is so true. Every year it seems that a 12 seed upsets a 4 seed. No matter how over-matched the 12 seems on paper, they just always seem to want it more. So in your bracket be sure to pick a 12 over a 4, at least one. This is guaranteed.
2. Give some love to the smaller schools, the Butlers, Gonzaga, Drake, Davidson’s. These schools can ball too.
Everyone will pick the Dukes, Indiana’s, North Carolina’s, to make it to the sweet sixteen, but that won’t win your pools. You have to pick the teams no one expects to make it that far. These are usually the smaller schools who don’t have the size to bang with the big boys, but can knock the outside shot down like J.J. Redick with a wiener tied to his pimply back and a fat kid from NC State chasing him. Davidson has one of the best, if not the best, shooter in the NCAA in Stephen Curry. So don’t always count out the small schools. Fact is, they usually shoot the ball better from the outside then the bigger schools.
3. Always pick your bracket when your drunk.
I am honestly telling you this is the best strategy. I usually am sober when I pick my bracket and put too much thought into it, and BAM, I’m screwed after the first round. Being drunk is not only good for your heart, but it takes your feelings out of the equations. That’s why you will sleep with that ugly girl instead of listening to your friends when they tell you not too. Just like you will be able to pick a worse ranked team to pull an upset, then out think yourself out of it. Make sense?
4. Always have at least 1 number 1 seed make the Final Four.
Every year I think, “I have too many number 1 seeds making it too far, I need to re-do”, and every year 2 out of 4 number 1 seeds make the Final Four. That’s 50%. Genius I am. That’s why they are number 1 seeds, people expect them to make a run for the title. Don’t worry if you have all 4 number 1 seeds in the Final Four, it most likely will happen that way.
So there you go. Everything you need to out think me at my own game. If you don’t want to follow these rules, then your probably a smarter person then I am. I mean, an idiot. Yeah, idiot.
Don’t forget about the contest. Here is the link one more time. If you haven’t figured out, I am going to mention the contest 4 times a day till the tourney starts, then you can’t get in. If only one person joins and beats me, then they win. Simple. I’m not gonna back down from no one.
