NCAA March Madness: "Brackets, to go with an expert or not..."

Predictions from various sports experts:

My Picks, and yes upsets are key:

You know it. The second Monday morning of March, you get to your desk, everyone’s talking about the bagels being a little stale in the commissary, and Chuck in Sales swings by and drops off a blank NCAA tournament bracket on your desk. “Ten bucks, buddy. Good luck.”

For an hour, you blow off your morning meetings and fail to return any incoming emails as you nervously search all the sports web sites, trying to learn something, anything about New Mexico’s front-court and Murray State’s out-of-conference schedule.

You take your pen out, only to quickly switch over to a pencil. There will be changes. Many. And nothing is final until Thursday.Everyone’s talking about their brackets at the water cooler and you’re just trying your damndest to keep it all straight. Wait, Florida State beat North Carolina by 30 points this season? Saint Mary’s beat Gonzaga in their conference tournament? There’s just too much to compute and comprehend at once.

A lot of the so-called experts on TV will be making “bold” predictions in their Final Four brackets over the coming days. It’ll be tempting to blindly trust their counsel, to follow those Hi-Liter pens like magic wands and assume that the guys in suits who talk sports know more than you do when it comes to filling these brackets out.

But guess what? They don’t...

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Peter Schrager

Now i went with the advice of a friend on not going with the "experts" because they are usually wrong on a lot of match-ups. Go with upsets and teams that cause them. Make smart moves and really think about your next decision. Studying the teams and match-ups should help and of course enjoy the games, should be intense! ~ A.T.