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The NCAA male tournament support has been announced. It’s time to make your choices.
Whether you are an unconditional hoop head, a relaxed or someone who has never watched a university basketball match, there is a good chance that you were invited to fill a support. If you are in one of these last camps and want to play, do not discourage yourself.
The supports are for everyone, and it is not because you erase that you have no chance. Armed with some fundamental principles, you can also compete with the person who has organized your support competition and has watched academic hoops since November.
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If you enter your support for support chaos, you will have two chances at $ 25,000 – one for our competitions for men and women *. The winner takes everything in each slice, so you will have to beat a lot of competition. But the price (free) is right.
Choosing random teams based on colors or mascot preferences is not an optimal strategy. But if the madness of the mascot makes you happy, by all means. The supports must be fun. But if you want to participate in a solid strategy to eliminate your support competition, we have some advice to consider.
How the NCAA tournament and the support of the support works
Understanding how the tournament and support support work is the first step in success. NCAA tournaments start with fields of 68 teams that were announced on Sunday evening. Eight of these teams from each tournament – the last four selections in general and the least low automatic submission winners – will play elimination games called the first four. For support, you don’t have to worry about choosing these games.
Once the first eight four teams are reduced to four, the real NCAA fields at 64 teams are defined. You can fill your supports now, but if you think that one of the first four teams has a chance to do a deep race, it is best to keep this section of your support to make sure that the teams you choose to advance on the field.
Tournament matches start in the first round, which is divided into 16 games each Thursday and Friday for men and Friday and Saturday for women. Higher seeds will play corresponding lower seeds in the four regions of the tranche – southern, Midwest and West – which are divided into 16 teams. Seed n ° 1 will play seed n ° 16; The seeded n ° 2 will play the seed n ° 15 – and so on until the seeds n ° 8 and n ° 9 are confronted.
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Pick up the upheavals, but proceed to caution
Choosing the upheavals correctly is essential to win your support. Even more important is not to lose a team that ends up making a deep race.
There are six cycles of NCAA play beyond the first four, and the issues double in each turn in the hook chaos (1, 2, 4, 8, 16 and 32 points). Choosing the winners of the first round will earn you a point, while the correct selection of the NCAA champion is worth 32 points – the equivalent of choosing each of the first round games correctly. Losing the last four teams and the championship teams in the first round is a good way to get out of the race early.
How do you avoid making this mistake? Well, it’s fun – and the challenge of the support. But the first rule is to make sure to selectively choose your upper upheavals and know the history of upheavals at the start of the round.
Taking high seeds to lose early is not the best idea, but …
Only two heads n ° 1 lost against a seeded n ° 16 since the male tournament extended to 64 teams in 1985. The two upheavals took place over the past seven years. The seeded n ° 16 UMBC beaten the head of N ° 1 Virginia in 2018 in what was then alone as the greatest sowing of sowing in the history of the tournament. Then Fairleigh Dickinson upset Zach Edey and Purdue in 2023.
What was deemed impossible is now at least achievable in the modern iteration of university basketball with more parity. But it remains a long overwhelming blow.
Seeds n ° 2 are not as reliable, but choosing against one in the first round is also a very risky proposal. Only 11 seeds n ° 2 never lost against seeds n ° 15 in the first round of men, with Princeton Arizona in 2023 as the last example. Princeton continued to beat the Missouri in the second round this year to go to Sweet 16, where he lost to Creighton.
In 2022, St. Peter’s Beat No. 2 Seed Kentucky, then advanced to the elite eight, which means that if you chose the peacocks, you had a seven points advantage on most of the support field that chose them to lose in the first round. St. Peter’s was the lowest seeded to have won three games in the NCAA male tournament.
There is therefore a real advantage of choosing these upheavals if you think that a high seed is vulnerable. And higher seeds are more vulnerable than they have ever been. Know that it is the most risky game you can do. It is the ultimate game at high risk and a strong reward which, in all likelihood, will disembark your support.
High seed upheavals are even rarer on the side of women. N ° 16 Harvard beat the head of N ° 1 Stanford in 1998. This remains the only upheaval in the first round of a female seed for NCAA since the tournament went to 64 teams in 1994. In fact, this is the only time a team was a 14-16 series ever recorded a victory in the female tournament. By the NCAA, These teams are 1-360 in the NCAA tournament.
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Where to look for upheavals
When you are looking for early upheavals, common sense comes into play. Games with teams are more closely classified produce more upheavals. The wider the gap, the rare the upheaval. The NCAA generally does good sowing work correctly.
By the NCAA11-6 upheavals are the most common, even more than 10-7, but barely. From there, the common point of the upheavals corresponds to the sowing gap of 12-5 and so on until the elusive 16-1 upset. This does not consider 8-9 games, which are also close to the selection of EMs. Go with your instinct in these games.
In total, 61 seeds n ° 11 recorded male upheavals, which corresponds to a victory rate of around 39.1%. Seeds n ° 10 are not far behind, with 60 total victories in the first round. The seeds n ° 12 produced 55 first -round winners, the seeds n ° 13 33 and the seeds n ° 14 23.
The upheavals in 12-5 games are popular choices each year. Those who went heavy out of 12 seeds in 2024 were rewarded with a 50% victory rate with two seed winners No. 12 (Grand Canyon against Saint Mary and James Madison on Wisconsin) in four first round games.
Looking deeper, Seeds n ° 2 lose in the second round to a seeded n ° 7 or 10 times per tournament. It is not a bad idea to have at least one seed n ° 2 below the Sweet 16.
If you want to look at the upheavals early in the female support, Starting with seeds n ° 12 is generally the way to follow. Since 1994, 33 female seeds No. 12 have obtained first -round upheavals on seeds n ° 5, an average of more than one per year. But there were none in 2024.
Ten out of 120 series n ° 13 have displayed victories since the field developed, and there was not last year. And remember, only one team was categorical 14-16 ever won.
Advanced analyzes and Paris lines are your friends
Finally, if you are torn, let the experts be your guide. The Ken Pomroy’s analytical guru cracks advanced data and spits a classification system called Kenpom For the field of men. Consider it as the top 25 of the analysis set – and which extends to the entire ICAA division field of 363 NCAA.
Then there are lines of Paris, where you Can seek in Betmgm For spreats and future in the first round. Keep in mind that the points Spreads consider in which direction the public is leaning in addition to the contribution of the experts.
But above all, take advantage of it. Spend as much or as little time as you want with your support. Fill it can be – and often it is – an exercise of five minutes. Have fun and good luck.
* No necessary purchase; empty where prohibited. Open only to legal residents of the 50 United States, DC or CA, 18+. The entry period ends before the official tournament on 03/20/25 for the male competition and 03/21/25 for the women’s competition. See Official men’s rules And Official women’s rules.
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