March Madness
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One of the most interactive activities in sports is filling the NCAA Tournament bracket. It is difficult yet one of the most interesting, challenging, and overall fun things to do for college basketball fans.

This is now becoming one of the most popular interactive activities in sports. There are 68 teams in the tournament and you have to predict which teams will make it and eventually win the whole thing.

However, even though this interactive game is very difficult and challenging, there are still many who are hoping and trying to predict the NCAA Tournament bracket challenge. 

This year's NCAA Tournament bracket will be revealed on Sunday and then March Madness will officially start on Tuesday. You still have time to predict the best teams that will qualify in each match. You just have to check each team's stats and their performance in the previous games.

Here are some schedules of this year's NCAA Tournament and it is followed by some tips for the March Madness according to a recently published article:

NCAA TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE

  • March 17-18 (First Four games in Dayton, Ohio)
  • March 19-20 (First-round games at designated eight sites)
  • March 21-22 (Sweet 16 games in Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, and New York City)
  • March 28-29 (Elite eight games in Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, and New York City)
  • April 4 (Final four in Atlanta)
  • April 6 (National Championship in Atlanta)

BRACKET TIPS

Do not take this March Madness interactive activity too seriously. It will just blow up your mind. The first thing that you have to do is to choose the 2 best teams that performed well in their previous games. You can check their average points per game and the stats of its players.

There are also instances where the best teams that you predicted will qualify in every round will make it but unfortunately, it cannot be avoided that it will wreck your prediction. But, it's always part of the game.

According to Andy Wittry of NCAA, since the tournament expanded in 1985 to 64 teams, there have been many changes in the dynamics of the game. Lower-seeded teams can knock-off higher-seeded opponents. 

It could be quite difficult to predict the teams in each round. However, using the average upsets in every round since 2007 will helo you if the lower-seeded teams will make it in each round. Just always remember that not all higher-seeded teams will make it to each round.

One of the factors seen is the previous matches of the team. There are instances where most teams are on the top because they were matched to weaker teams in their previous games. The same thing also with the lower-seeded teams but it is on the other way around, they were matched to stronger teams.

This means that when predicting a team in 2020 NCAA Tournament bracket challenge for March Madness there is a need for an effort to check the previous games of each team like what team they did match with, their average points per game, the contribution of bench players in terms of points and many more.