You once could fill out your NCAA Tournament pool without knowing a team’s NET Ranking or Quad 1 record. You didn’t need to know the difference between KenPom or a pompom or whether a bubble team from a Power 5…
You didn’t need to know the difference between KenPom or a pompom or whether a bubble team from a Power 5 conference had a better chance of advancing than an automatic qualifier from a midmajor.
Everyone had a chance at winning the office pool, from the secretary making random picks to the sports geek who stayed up until midnight every weekday watching Mountain West games. So go to your laptop, study the NET rankings, read the bracketologists and make your selections based on the best available criteria. Or else just read on and use this Cliffs Notes guide to March Madness to pretend you know what you’re talking about.Oh, for the good old days when Gonzaga was everyone’s favorite Cinderella pick before it became a national power. The Zags lost to Baylor in last year’s title game and enter the 2022 tournament as consensus favorites.
Mike Woodson’s Indiana team lost seven of its final nine games in conference play before the Hoosiers shocked Illinois in the Big Ten Tournament quarterfinals. Now they’ll try to advance as a play-in team against Wyoming in the East Region. Yale didn’t even play in 2020-21 after the Ivy League canceled the season because of the pandemic, but sharpshooter Azar Swain and the Bulldogs held off Princeton on Sunday to give them a shot against Big Ten power Purdue.
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