How many No. 1 seeds should you pick to make the Final Four? What qualities should you look for? Here are tips to pick the best March Madness Final Four.
Picking the teams to reach the Final Four in your men’s basketball tournament bracket requires a combination of art and science. You need to pick deserving teams but also balance the potential uniqueness of your entry. If you have a quartet of squads that is very similar — or even the same — as most of your competitors, it becomes difficult to win a pool, and shifts the burden to being most accurate in the early rounds.
Here are a few guidelines to help you pick a Final Four that balances realism with opportunity, and should give you a chance to remain competitive all the way until last weekend of the season.It is tempting to use the four best teams in the last four spots of your bracket. Resist the temptation. A Final Four like that almost never happens. In fact, only three times over the past 38 years has the Final Four been represented by all No. 1 or No. 2 seeds: 1993, 2007 and 2008.
You could also examine a team’s offensive and defensive efficiencies and compare those to similar tournament teams in the past. For example,, a collection of teams that also includes three national champions . No. 11 North Carolina State doesn’t have as many successful tournament teams in its similarity profile, but the Wolfpack do have 2011 VCU — whichThe schedule and the injury report do Wizards no favors vs.
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