March Madness Predictions

Vic Tafur’s Picks For March Madness

... - MARCH 06: Jock Landale #34 and Calvin Hermanson #24 of the Saint Mary's Gaels celebrate on the bench after a teammate scored against the Brigham Young Cougars late in a semifinal game of the West Coast Conference Basketball Tournament at the Orleans Arena on March 6, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Saint Mary's won 81-50. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) less. LAS VEGAS, NV - MARCH 06: Jock Landale #34 and Calvin Hermanson #24 of the Saint Mary's Gaels celebrate on the bench after a teammate scored against the Brigham Young Cougars late in a semifinal game of the. more. Photo: Ethan Miller, Getty Images. Image 9 of 9. Bracketology: Vic Tafur’s picks for March Madness. 1 / 9. Back to Gallery. It’s that time of the year again when millions of people pretend they’re college basketball fans delirious with March Madness. They fill out brackets, take long lunches and set up windows on their work computers so they can watch the NCAA Tournament. Never mind that many don’t know the players, as the best ones stay in school only one year. Never mind that the college game is kind of hard to watch, with each team just firing off deep three-point ...

Our Writers Fill Out Brackets And Give Their Upset Picks, Final Four And Title Winners

... Champion: Could we have the first-ever North Carolina-Duke title game? Yup. The Tar Heels hold up their end of the bargain bludgeoning guard-heavy Kansas in the paint and the Blue Devils lean heavily on Jayson Tatum and Luke Kennard to barely survive Trier, Markkanen and a heavily pro-Arizona crowd. That sets up a classic title game that ends with Duke finally validating its preseason hype and delivering Mike Krzyzewski’s sixth national title. MALIKA ANDREWS. Malika Andrews’ bracket in the Yahoo Sports Tourney Pick-em game. Upsets: No. 11 Xavier has the potential to overpower No. 6 Maryland – especially on the defensive end. The Terps have struggled with defensive boards while the Musketeers have proven to be a good rebounding team. The Terps have lost six out of their last 10 games so unless they can get hot early and stay hot, Xavier could take that one easily. Final Four: Gonzaga beat Arizona once already this season, and ...

Dates, Predictions, Tv Schedule And Bracket Analysis

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Cinderella Picks For March Madness Bracket

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March Madness Picks, Based On Football

... myself to do it). Subscribe to The Read Option. A daily-ish mini-column on the college football thing of the day, with some other stuff too. Your email address. By signing up you agree to our terms of use. This region is despicable. Things are so bad, 4-8 Oregon and 3-9 Iowa State reach the Sweet 16. A handful of teams here don’t even have football, including Kansas. That was a joke among friends. Michigan scrubbing out Louisville in the second round leaves us with only two FBS programs of note from there on out. Mainly, let’s imagine how roof-spacklingly furious Jim Harbaugh would get at basketball refs. He’d blast into orbit. Not the worst region, but the region most lacking in top-tier power. Kansas State would be a respectable runner-up, but if that’s the best team you’ve got, you’re not going much further. I do like how most of K-State’s matchups look like games that’d be over in about 90 minutes of real time, though. A K-State vs. UCLA postseason reunion might force Jim Mora to reactivate his Twitter account. Final Four. ...

Every First-round Game Analyzed

... nine of 10 and is led by a point guard, Monte Morris, whose assist-turnover ratio is a lap ahead of anyone else in the country. But the Cyclones can never sleep against Nevada, who pulled off the comeback of the year against New Mexico, roaring from 18 points behind with five minutes left to win in overtime, hitting seven 3-pointers in the last 1:48 of regulation. Eric Mussleman is the Wolfpack coach. He once coached the Golden State Warriors, before the Warriors were cool. RELATED: Interactive March Madness bracket. Purdue vs. Vermont: The ghosts of Marches past peer over the Boilermakers’ shoulders. Little Rock last season, when they led by 13 with 3 ½ minutes to go. Cincinnati in 2015, when they were up by seven with 48.5 seconds left. Both overtime losses. Purdue hasn’t won an NCAA tournament game since 2012. With the ...

March Madness Predictions 2017

... address. Get Heavy's Top 5 News Stories Every Day. We will never share your email address. March Madness Predictions 2017: Bracket Picks East Region. Share Tweet Share Email Follow. Duke can give Villanova a run for the East Region. (Getty). The East Region is full of talent with top seeds Villanova, Duke and Butler. UNC Wilmington, SMU and Wisconsin are all lying in the region as sleepers. Baylor and Florida find themselves with high seeds but have struggled down the stretch. It is difficult to project which team fans will see from both squads come tournament time. For those looking for additional bracket picks, checkout Heavy’s breakdown of the Midwest Region. Heavy also gives you five key principles to help you win your bracket pool as well as the best websites to fill out your bracket. Here is a pick for every March Madness game in the East Region. First Round. Baylor ended the regular season on a down note. (Getty). Virginia Tech is welcomed back to the Big Dance with a bad matchup against Wisconsin. The majority of the metrics favor Wisconsin despite ...

Seven Bold Projections For The Ncaa Tournament

... for turnovers that doomed the Boilermakers last year in a first-round loss to Arkansas-Little Rock could be a problem again for Matt Painter's group, which won the Big Ten regular season in a down year. Florida Gulf Coast, a No. 14 seed and best known for its 2013 Dunk City Sweet 16 run, is really, really good. And its first-round opponent Florida State is really, really vulnerable and not playing its best basketball. FGCU, coached now by Joe Dooley, has a high-octane offense and looked impressive even in regular-season losses to Michigan State and Baylor. Guard Brandon Goodwin (18.2 ppg, 4.0 apg) has the ability to become a March star. That Middle Tennessee team everyone loves won't be a Cinderella. Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders guard Aldonis Foote (45) and guard Tyrik Dixon (0) and forward Ja Corey Williams (22) and ...