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Before you fill out the March Madness Bracket in the news gazette on Monday, we asked the regular guests of the press line from NCAA-Herren-Basketball tournaments that are present and to do their best advice.

The co-founder/editor of HOOPS HQ will be part of the four-man crew from CBS, which unveiled the holder on Sunday at 5 p.m.

“A lot of it depends on how your pool is built. Many of the holder pools give the seed additional weight, so that they are rewarded to take risks to the lower seeds.

“But let's be honest, the most intelligent strategy is usually to make the chalk difficult.

“I will say the following: A hard and quick rule is that I don't use my selection. I like to pick up faults, so no fault.

“In general, there are generally at least No. 12 Seed, which gains a game every year and have four to choose from. I would make sure you choose at least one 12 and 13 to win a game in the first round.

“Apart from that, there are no bank -enabled strategies, so you can just throw darts and have fun.”

Sporting News Insider and Big Ten Network Analyst

“My greatest advice to fill out a bracket is to do the champion right. If you do this, this selection will work for you all the way through the tournament instead of the opening day.

“The selection of this 5/12 surprise will be great in the office if you do it right, but if you are wrong and this 5 seeds do the last four, well …

“Making the champion correctly means looking for names by names to see if a team has significant prospections. No team has won in the first round since 1987. whether it is a first -class point Guard; And whether it is effective both on the offensive and in defense. In Kenpom.com database there was only one champion in the Kenpom.com database in a full season outside of the top 20 in both categories.

“There are not many teams that fit every category this year.

“Duke is one. Auburn may not be. “

Kenpom creator, the statistics-based evaluation system used by the selection committee to select the field of 68

“My advice would not be doing it, Lol. Simply enjoy the tournament for what it is, and the roots for whom you want without having to worry about who you have selected. “

ESPN College basketball reporter

“My advice is simple: all the advice you receive is wrong.

“I have been an” expert “as a college basketball reporter at local and national level for almost 20 years. My biggest bracket? My second college year when I was classified nationally in a Yahoo competition.

“Back then I was not an expert, just a teenager who was looking for a party on a Friday evening in Minnesota, Minnesota.

“Since then I have been defeated by fifth graders, people who have not seen a college basketball game for a decade in Bracket pools, and random cousins ​​who only call every year after the selection on Sunday.

“My best advice is to ignore the advice and just have fun. In this way it is better and you will probably have a better shot on victory. “

The graduate of the University of Illinois organizes the sports game show “Betmgm Tonight” every weekday and writes on Thegamingjuice.com

“First of all, bury the bias and try to look at teams through an objective objective. I love u from Ipas as well as the next snack, but Illinois is never a choice of car.

“Take a step back and evaluate the matchups. Remember Draw is everything.

“Ultimately, the winning from pools has to go out to cigging, while other ZAG. Yes, avoid choosing too many upsets, but chalk in particular is not recommended.

“Go with a mixed approach. Do this and maybe this is the year in which you have one of 9.2 quintillions chance to achieve a perfect bracket.

“Happy March Madness.”

ESPN College Sporteporter

“Select a league that you love and drive the majority of your teams. Select a league for which you are skeptical and choose most of your teams.

“That brings a method into madness.”

Long -time managing editor of the deceased, great basketball time

“Don't drive crazy or become too conservative with your disorders. Find the middle path.

“Three quarters of their winners from each round should be the team with a higher seed. Find eight upsets – no longer, no less – to the 32 -Donental and Friday games of the first week.

“Then four disorders in the Saturday/Sunday games. Then two disturbances in the eight sweet 16 games and one in the elite. The trick is, of course, to do it right.

“This comes from a man who wrote about 10 years ago that the 12-over 5 surprise had disappeared due to the expansion of the conference and the transfer boom.

“I still think that will come true and that I was a lot ahead of my time.”

The 36-year-old Sports Illustrated Writer has won Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame's Curt Gowdy Award for outstanding lifespan reporting about the game

“If I am forced to choose between two teams that I don't really know, I go to go with experienced guards. Or most seniors.

“And if it is specifically looking for an essay, choose teams that are lucky enough to confront a higher seed that had to travel to the east in a few time zones – especially if the game is a tip on Thursday afternoon.

“Enjoy the madness.”

ESPN regular, long-time Boston Globe columnist, four-time national sports years of the year

“I've never been good at filling out brackets. I just prefer to look at the games and let nature take its course.

“However, my big thing is that there are no” disturbances “until they come at the 4-13 crossing. Until then, everything can happen.

“And everyone who refers to a 9 who beats an 8 as a surprise is a bleeppin 'idiot.”

Ncaa.com College basketball author and former USA Today Sports Columnist have covered 34 final fours

“Study the metrics thoroughly, pore the statistics deep above the statistics – forget everything and give you with your intestine. Because nobody is an expert in March.

“A few years ago I have a story about a girl who was filled in, made a clip for her high school class and teams exclusively for her favorite colors or how much she liked the nickname.

“She missed three games.”

CBS Sport Insider

“I don't think there is a perfect formula -or at least I've never found one. But one thing I would consider is that there is a big difference, usually between a No. 1 seed and a number 3 seeds, but there is really no big difference in quality, for example between a No. 4 seed and a seed No. 8.

“So you are not afraid of choosing a round of 32 upsets. One team is always sown higher than the other.

CBS Sports Senior Writer

“You have to familiarize yourself with the selection of a final four that looks uncomfortable. Each NCAA tournament since 2013 has a seed no. 5 or a lower reach of the Final Four.

“Does it mean that it is guaranteed this year? No. But the volatile nature of the bracket and, if necessary, how deep/old the sport will probably happen again.”