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Need Help Filling Out Your NCAA Bracket?

Tips For Entering Your Office Pool

The NCAA tournament is looming and your office or friends want you to enter their bracket pool. However, you haven't watched a single NCAA men's basketball game all season and you can't the difference between a Blue Devil and a Sun Devil.

No worries -- you don't need to be a basketball genius to enter a bracket in a pool.

Pick Highest Seeds

It might not be the most entertaining -- nor the riskiest -- way to fill out an NCAA bracket, but simply picking the top seeds to win each games gets the job done and prevents you from causing a stir of laughter when you pick the play-in game winner to upset a No. 1 seed.

Pick Likely Upsets

If you want to spice your bracket up with a few upsets, select a few games that notoriously produce an underdog winner. The most likely games to result in an upset tend to be the No. 5-No.12, No. 6- No.11 and No. 7-No. 10 games.

When In Doubt, Go With Tradition

If you really can't decide which team will win a matchup, go with the more storied squad. In the NCAA tournament, teams with experience tend to be annual contenders, so going with a school such as Duke, North Carolina or Connecticut can be a wise pick.

Stay True To Your School

Even if your school isn’t seeded high this year, it's usually a good idea to fill out at least one bracket with your team advancing far. This way you don't have to choose between rooting for your school or your bracket, and you can be excited if your team happens to pull an upset to advance into the late rounds. The same can go for teams in your conference. If you can't decide between two schools, picking the squad that plays in your conference is a noble choice.

Random Selections

If you want to put no rational thinking into your bracket picks, picking teams based on random reasoning can also work. For example, you could pick teams based on best nickname, best mascot, or even by which color of uniform you prefer.


Tournament Extras

The NCAA tournament is down to two teams, Michigan State and North Carolina. Get live game updates, scores, news and slideshows here as the tourney wraps up. More


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