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NCAA Bracket Picks: 10 Expert Tips To Help Win Your Pool In 2024

NCAA Bracket Picks: 10 Expert Tips To Help Win Your Pool In 2024

This is a guest post from PoolGenius, a site that provides data-driven NCAA bracket picks, projections, and tools.

We’ve spent 100+ hours poring over power ratings and advanced statistical game logs for all 68 NCAA tournament teams.

Besides understanding how leading prediction sources view each team, we’ve identified the exception cases (injury situations, lineup changes, etc.) that trip up even the most respected computer ratings.

See below for 10 bracket research highlights, plus a link to expert brackets that give you the best chance to win.

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10 Bracket Picking Tips For 2024

To win more bracket pools, you need to understand:

  1. Each team’s odds to advance
  2. How popular of a pick it is

The insights below revolve around one or both of those data points.

1) Let’s start with No. 1 Connecticut. Compared to top NCAA seeds over the past 13 years, Connecticut has both the fifth highest tournament win odds (based on our projections) and the fifth-highest pick popularity in bracket pools. So it doesn’t seem like bracket pickers in 2024 are piling on to Connecticut more than you’d expect them to, just because they are the defending champs. Sometimes the top seed in the bracket is such a popular pick that your best bet is almost always to avoid them. That’s not necessarily the case in 2024.

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