Hey all- Longtime lurker & college basketball superfan. I've been betting the tourney for 17 years now, and have come out ahead in 14 of them (not bragging...my track record on other sports is not very good). I watch a ton of college ball every year, and just seem to always have a good feel for the teams come tourney time. Anyway, I pretty much always keep my picks to myself, but will offer my first round picks here just to put them out there. (I did get 3 of 4 First Four games, so a decent start).
My overall thoughts on the tourney: I expect more upsets than usual, and won't be surprised if several double digit seeds do well. Not only is there more parity this year, but I have seen more inexplicable insane results this year (esp basketball, but in sports in general) than ever. I don't know if we are in a new parallel reality where crazy shit regularly happens, but I have seen dozens of games where a team was 99%+ win expectancy during the game only to end up losing. That shit is wild, and I'm just pointing out what I've seen, whatever the reason! My favorite dark horse teams are: Charleston, Furman, Utah St, ULL, Oral Roberts, VCU, and Kent State. I like Marquette to win it all...Outright Big East winner & Big East tourney winner, and only finally getting noticed nationally.
Good luck everyone, and enjoy the greatest sporting event on earth!
Thursday Furman (+6) vs Virginia Utah St (-1) vs Missouri Howard (+22.5) vs Kansas Texas AM CC (+24) vs Alabama Charleston (+5) vs SDSU Princeton vs Arizona (-14) Illinois (+1.5) vs Arkansas Auburn (-1) vs Iowa Boise St vs Northwestern (-1) UL Lafayette (+10.5) vs Tenn UNC-Ashville (+17.5) vs UCLA
Friday USCB (+10.5) vs Baylor Pitt (+4.5) vs Iowa St FDU (+22.5) vs Purdue Grand Canyon (+15.5) vs Gonzaga Montana St vs Kansas St (-8.5) Kent St (+4.5) vs Indiana
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Hey all- Longtime lurker & college basketball superfan. I've been betting the tourney for 17 years now, and have come out ahead in 14 of them (not bragging...my track record on other sports is not very good). I watch a ton of college ball every year, and just seem to always have a good feel for the teams come tourney time. Anyway, I pretty much always keep my picks to myself, but will offer my first round picks here just to put them out there. (I did get 3 of 4 First Four games, so a decent start).
My overall thoughts on the tourney: I expect more upsets than usual, and won't be surprised if several double digit seeds do well. Not only is there more parity this year, but I have seen more inexplicable insane results this year (esp basketball, but in sports in general) than ever. I don't know if we are in a new parallel reality where crazy shit regularly happens, but I have seen dozens of games where a team was 99%+ win expectancy during the game only to end up losing. That shit is wild, and I'm just pointing out what I've seen, whatever the reason! My favorite dark horse teams are: Charleston, Furman, Utah St, ULL, Oral Roberts, VCU, and Kent State. I like Marquette to win it all...Outright Big East winner & Big East tourney winner, and only finally getting noticed nationally.
Good luck everyone, and enjoy the greatest sporting event on earth!
Thursday Furman (+6) vs Virginia Utah St (-1) vs Missouri Howard (+22.5) vs Kansas Texas AM CC (+24) vs Alabama Charleston (+5) vs SDSU Princeton vs Arizona (-14) Illinois (+1.5) vs Arkansas Auburn (-1) vs Iowa Boise St vs Northwestern (-1) UL Lafayette (+10.5) vs Tenn UNC-Ashville (+17.5) vs UCLA
Friday USCB (+10.5) vs Baylor Pitt (+4.5) vs Iowa St FDU (+22.5) vs Purdue Grand Canyon (+15.5) vs Gonzaga Montana St vs Kansas St (-8.5) Kent St (+4.5) vs Indiana
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