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The NCAA’s South region offers several potential upsets. But because of a key injury, fans need may not know until tip-off–long after the brackets have been filled out–who to pick. Ohio State is led by three upper-classmen guards who are
The top half of the NCAA tournament’s South bracket seems ripe for a few upsets that should give hope to underdogs and help in office pools. Pitt is led by a senior, NBA-bound PG in Lamar Patterson (19th best Value
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The bottom half of the Midwest bracket contains a Cinderella that could potentially parlay a play-in game all the way to the Sweet Sixteen. Red-hot Tennessee has two of the top 35 players, both of whom are NBA prospects, and
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What teams are underseeded? Overseeded? Gleaning the answers can be the difference between being an office also-ran and the winner of your annual NCAA tournament pool. The Midwest Region offers many potential surprises, particularly as the tournament pairs down weaker
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The Eastern Regional bracket’s top half–the slate of games that appear higher as you look at the seedings–matches up Virginia-Coastal Carolina, Michigan State-Delaware, Cincinnati-Harvard, and George Washington-Memphis. Unlike in the other portion of games in the East, prognosticators might be
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Marcus Smart is the top-rated Value Add player in the West region and Smart gives Arizona fits. If Arizona beats Oklahoma State, San Diego State could give them trouble as well, according to Value Add projections. Here is an analysis
The upsets make the NCAA tournament, and the winners of bracket office pools are generally made up of fans who can predict those upsets, which aren’t always unpredictable. Beating the bracket takes the guts to pick the occasional underdog, but
On March 23, one percent of the flow of the Colorado River will be released into Mexico, to flow into the river delta and the Gulf of California as part of an experiment in environmental restoration over several months. The
Over the weekend, I gleefully read and shared this Blaze article about Michael Luo, a proud Christian reporter at the New York Times. Michael Luo, a deputy metropolitan editor at the New York Times, is a Bible-believing Christian who has
The following are the Value Add Rankings for each player in the bottom half of the West Region, their team’s seed, height, year in school, and which players are NBA prospects (all caps). The teams are American (15-seed), Baylor (6),
