Everyone is looking for bracket help this time of year, right?
Be it a friendly office pool or whatever game you and your buddies have going, tips are hard to come by this time of year. Everyone is looking for that double-digit underdog to make a run like Davidson did in 2008. Or a red-hot team to shoot from the middle of the pack into the Final Four like last year’s champion UConn did.
Sure, everyone including that girl in accounting knows that Kentucky is the prohibitive favorite, and Las Vegas puts the Wildcats at even money against the other 67 teams in the field.
2015 NCAA Final Four logo.
Bracket for the 2015 NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Championship.If you back the Wildcats, that’s fine, but it will mean that the early rounds of the tournament will be even more important in whatever bracket contest you enter. Because roughly half the entries — including that girl’s in accounting — will have Kentucky winning it all.
Here are some mathematical tips from Vegas insider R.J. Bell of pregame.com: