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NCAAB

1st Round Tournament Picks Analysis

Contrarian View On The NCAA Tournament 1st Round

I’m a big believer in looking at the past in order to predict the future, so I decided to take a look at last year’s 1st round games. One surprising trend was that favorites went 21-10 against the spread and #1 and #2 seeds were 5-3 against the spread as well. One game had a spread with a pick ‘em spread, which is why there are only 31 games being looked at here.

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NCAAB

Evan Altemus’ March Madness Handicapping

LESSONS TO TAKE AWAY FROM THURSDAY’S CONFERENCE TOURNAMENTS

Thursday was the first day for conference tournament action from the biggest conferences in the NCAA.  There were some interesting results from those games, but they were not as surprising as you might think.  Let’s take a look at how we can use these outcomes to help predict what will happen in the NCAA tournament, when it matters the most.