Brackets

First off I'd like to congratulate the Gophers on their first NCAA tournament since 2005. If you erase the years that they cheated the gophers haven't won a NCAA tournament game since 1992. So making it is actually a big accomplishment for them.

What I like about the NCAA tournaments is the brackets. Everyone does them. Sports fans, and non sports fans, men, women, young, old, and yes even the dumb.

Let's look at my 5 rules of filling out brackets.

1.)People say go with teams the have good guards. What does this even mean? These teams aren't just good because they have good guards. What they're saying is if a team has good forwards then we shouldn't pick them. I think any team that is a 4-5 seed or higher is just good, and it doesn't matter if it's guards or forwards or even a center that makes your team good.
2.)I don't like picking by conference. I think conferences get overrated and underrated. So I think you need to focus more on actual matchups. ESPN has the Big East contract. So it's to their benefit if the Big East is the best. So who do you think they'll talk about.
3.)Don't pick upsets in first round. Make your upsets be 6 beating 3 rather than 14 beating 3. Those upsets will just hurt you a lot more later than they'll help you. Don't risk 10pts. to gain 1pt.
4.)Don't ever pick a team from Minnesota. Do you think that those people who won their brackets with Minnesota should have to give their money back? Those games didn't happen according to the NCAA.
5.)Most of all I think it is all about luck. Nobody that has an actual life can actually dissect each team and matchup. And the guys that do it for a living don't win every bracket they do. It's not like Digger Phelps is winning ESPN's bracket. Pick favorites and the teams you have heard of. That's why you've heard of them, it's because they win in March.

So stick those rules in the future and you can be successful just like me. Actually I just lost 2 games in the last 5 minutes.