March is here. And NCAA men's and women's tournament brackets have been announced.
Randomly picking teams based on colors or mascot preference obviously isn't an optimal strategy. But if mascot madness makes you happy, by all means. Brackets should be fun. But if you want to go in with a strategy to take down your bracket pool, we've got a few tips to consider.Understanding how the tournament and bracket scoring works is the first basic step to success. The NCAA tournament starts with a field of 68 teams announced Sunday evening.
There are six rounds of NCAA play, and the stakes double with each round in Yahoo Tourney Pick ‘Em . Picking first-round winners will earn you one point, while correctly picking the NCAA champion is worth 32 points — the equivalent of correctly picking each of the first round games. Losing Final Four and championship game teams in the first round is a good way to knock yourself out of the running early.
St. Peter's advanced all the way to the Elite Eight last season, meaning that if you picked the Peacocks, you had a seven-point edge over most of the bracket field that picked them to lose in the first round. But make those selections at your own peril. St. Peter's was the lowest seed to ever win three games in NCAA men's tournament play.
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