Duke men will win NCAA Tournament

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If you want to build a winning March Madness bracket, let’s start with Duke. The Blue Devils will win the title assuming Cooper Flagg gets healthy.

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Sports Seriously

Are you tired of the coworker who didn’t watch a college basketball game all year or your 9-year-old nephew or the HOA president who doesn’t know the difference between St. John’s and Saint Mary’s winning the March Madness office pool every year? Are you sick of putting in hours and hours of training in January and February watching Mountain West or Horizon League basketball on some obscure channel only to have your bracket obliterated by Happy Hour on Friday afternoon?

I’m not sure about you, but I’ve never won a bracket contest. Never even come close, really. It’s the same story every year. I talk myself into too many upsets that don’t pan out and completely whiff on double-digit seeds that I never considered, mostly because I watched them at some point and thought there was no way they could win an NCAA Tournament game. 

It made for a convenient excuse: I know too much!

But let’s face it, that’s just cope.

Here’s the truth: I stink at this. So do you, though. 

And I think I’ve figured out why.

Every year when the bracket comes out, the first thing we do is look at the matchups that interest us. That’s where the problem starts. 

People who watch college basketball all year long have all this data in our heads that we’ve accumulated over the past 4½ months, and we form opinions in the abstract about what’s going to happen in March. Then when the bracket comes out and we have actual games to pick, some of those ideas inevitably come into conflict. To figure it out, we become too analytical. We overthink everything, leading to a spiral of bad predictions and busted brackets. 

This year, it’s time for a…

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