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For those of you who might not be aware, the NCAA has expanded the tournament field from 64 teams to 68 teams.
A total of 68 teams will enter the tournament. Thirty of the thirty-one automatic bids teams will be given to the program that wins their conference tournament. The remaining automatic bid will go to the Ivy League regular season champion since they do not hold a conference tournament. The remaining 37 teams will be granted "at-large" bids, which are extended by the NCAA Selection Committee.
Eight teams—the four lowest-seeded automatic qualifiers and the four lowest-seeded at-large teams—will play in the First Four (the successor to what had been popularly known as "play-in games" through the 2010 tournament). The winners of these games advance to the main draw of the tournament.
In the past, we have had the 65th game as the first tie breaker. They now have 4 games played before the tournament. We will not be participating in this since I think it is dumb. Not every one is a winner, not eveyone can make it! There are only 64 teams in the tournament!
The main reason for this is after talking with league members, people did not want to pick the winners of these 4 games both from a lack of interest standpoint and from the standpoint of requiring entries to be completed by Tuesday after the pairings given out on Sunday night. So, the 64/65 team logic currently in place will be removed.
For those of you who might not be aware, the NCAA has expanded the tournament field from 65 teams (with 1 play-in game) to 68 teams (with, essentially, 4 play-in games).
Round 1 - 1pt
Round 2 - 3pt
Sweet 16 - 5pt
Elite 8 - 7pt
Final 4 - 9 pt
Championship - 11pt
Bonus: 25pts will be granted to the person(s) that gets the correct combine score of the two teams playing in the championship game.
Example: If the final score was 65-32, your pick would be 97. ( 65 + 32 = 97 )
Tie Breaker will be as followed:
1.) Picked the correct championship team
2.) Most teams in the championship
3.) Most teams in final 4
4.) Most teams in elite 8
5.) Most teams in sweet 16
6.) Most teams in 2nd round
7.) Pick Percentage
8.) Number of upsets picked in first round
9.) Number of upsets picked in the 1st round based on seed starting with 16th seed. (16th seed, 15th, 14th, etc)
10.) Number of upsets picked in the 2nd round based on seed starting with 16th seed. (16th seed, 15th, 14th, etc)
All brackets need to be filled out and returned to me before 11AM ET on Thursday March 16th (This means if you live in IOWA, you need to have your picks in by 10AM Thursday Morning). All brackets received after that time will not be included in the tournament. As always, I will give my bracket to Steve K. and Aaron Casper to verify my picks.
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