Handling March Madness

    We are less than two weeks away from Selection Sunday, where the 64 teams will be announced for this year’s NCAA basketball tournament.  This sporting event is one of my favorites. For a whole month, sports fans clutch strongly onto their bracket and selections hoping that their teams will advance and in turn, so will their excitement.  I have made my own bracket selections for the past few years, starting in high school, and every year I do a better job picking the right teams.

                                                                

   This year’s tournament will be extremely difficult to predict.  This year’s season has lacked a true #1 where teams like Florida and UNC have been juggernauts in prior years.  This year UCLA, UNC, Memphis, Tennessee, Texas, and the always iffy Kansas, head the pack, but none of these teams stand out and make a convincing case that they are the BEST.

So, what do you do? Well, with everyones final four differing this year, anyone will have the chance the win especially if a  #3 or #4 seed win it all. This means you have to be very smart in the early rounds with who you choose to advance.  ESPN puts together a great video analysis every year of all the teams in the tournaments and then looks at the match ups for possible upsets and underdogs.

Once you have an idea of what your bracket looks like, head over to CBS SPORTS, and either create a league for you and your friends or join an already existing one.  I have used this website every year now for March Madness and it is very efficient and gives you the ability to change how you want your league to be scored.  They also offer live video feeds for the first few rounds so you can watch all the games at once. It does not get much better than that!!!

Stay tuned for some more March Madness related posts and we’ll start sharing some of our picks and hopefully give you a game plan to take down your friends and collect some cash during the month of March.