March 10 Madness Tips for filling out your women's tournament clip

The ultimate separator in sport is a consistency, and March Madness may be the ultimate example of how this leads to success. Small sample sizes, collision styles and a lower level of experience on a national stage lead to some of the most brutally beautiful moments of heartache and size that can offer sport.

How can you best build and prepare your brackets for success, despite the madness that March will throw on your way? I have 10 tips that you can follow when you fill out your bracket. Download one here.

1. Have more than one

The first and most important tip: you can never have too many! As much as we try to reduce the game and understand it through advanced metrics, March throws so much out of the door. Madness brings a simmer in a few moments – a few 3s here, a coupling turnover there.

In the first year in which I filled out a March Madness clip, I watched religious games for every team in the tournament all year round. I knew the players, the styles, the games … and my mother only selected teams which logos they liked and won our Bracket Challenge! Do more than one.

2. Be unorthodox

Something in the same direction has to be an element of the trend when a bracket is expanded. It is a great recipe for an early exit in your keeper pool, which you believe will happen. There will be disturbances!

3. Select the right ash stitches

How can you choose the right ones?

The most important thing here is to do your research. Who gave top seed teams difficult games in non-conference meetings? Who plays a funky style that is more difficult to solve?

Take a team like Middle Tennessee from last year, a seed No. 11 in 2024 that won his game in the first round. The Blue Raiders had difficulties and defeated Tennessee at the beginning of the season.

With a 6-foot 6 center that blocked shots at a high level, and one of the best 3-point shooting offices in the country was Middle Tennessee a huge threat to a team in Louisville without a considerable low post player.

4. Who wakes up?

In the same way, Louisville was a team that I was a little unsure about going to the big dance of last season. The cardinals went from the beginning of February to the end of their run in the ACC tournament, where they went out in the second game.

This should not reduce the solid season of Louisville, but recognize that the momentum is getting into the NCAA tournament matters. We do not often see how teams are turning a switch after a month and runs for a month to close the regular season.

Take the state of Ohio from last season, a seed number 2 that lost in the second round against Duke. The Buckeyes have the last game of their regular season and went out in a disappointing way during the first game of the Big Ten tournament. The Buckeyes were booted from the NCAA tournament in the second round.

Conversely, look at a team like the NC State last season. The Wolfpack played games against UNC and Duke in mid-February, but then played Wire-to-Wire in the ACC championship game. The Wolfpack got her swing and led to the final Four.

5. Nail the last four

The most important thing you can do in your selection is to get you directly in the end. Teams that go far in March have the greatest influence on their brackets. If you make a selection wrong, it is better to do it wrong if you only hurt you in the first round.

6. Be careful with injuries

While this is an unfortunate part of the game and the bracket itself, it is important to recognize the potential and to notice that recent injuries can have in teams. Take Virginia Tech last season, which was spent as No. 4.

This team was incredibly good and the total number of work brought them this seed. Playing Stalwart Liz Kitley without a program made it difficult for the Hokies to set up. Colleague No. 4, Kansas State, was in a similar position after playing Ayoka Lee for a large part of Big 12 and integrated into the lineup in the lineup at the end of the season. The wildcats lost as well as the Hokies, the only No. 4 seeds that did not move on on the first weekend in the game.

Should you take this into account if Lee returns from the injury to the tournament of this season? How will you take the LSU injuries into account?

7. Immerse yourself in play styles

Speaking of last year Virginia Tech Team, it was a popular choice of bracket for a surprise in the first round against Marshall in No. 4 no. 13 game. The Hokies treated Marshall conveniently in this game.
Although it made sense on paper that a team that forced a lot of sales and was turned well by Deep could get hot to choose the herd for these reasons, a summary of Virginia Tech.

Georgia Amoore was the elite last season (and this year in Kentucky), and the herd pressed more than any other team in the country last year.

If you understand what works against different team and player styles, you can choose your disorders.

8. Bet on guard game

Elite post players are a cheat code in College basketball and define many of the best teams in the game. Obviously, the UCLA Center Lauren Bett will be a focus in the tournament of this season.

However, when it comes to survival and progress, elite awakening is the separator when the sample size goes out the window.

The production and the ability to create are huge, but take a look at teams with elite decisions. Who makes good things happen if they are confronted with pressure? Harmoni Turner and the Harvard Crimson are ready to prove this case.

9. Be careful with upsets on the first weekend

Thirteen of the 16 guest teams went to the Sweet Sixteen in 2024. Of the three teams that were not 4 seeds or higher on the second weekend, there were two seeds No. 5 (Baylor and Colorado) and the final team was the No. 7 seeds.

Twelve out of 16 guest teams performed in 2023, and the team was the lowest seed that reached the sweet Sixteen seed seeds seeds no. 8.

Disruptions pass, but mostly in the first round. Make sure you select your brackets accordingly.

10. Believe in experience

It may seem pretty easy, but experience is invaluable. It is easy to get involved in the Star Power young teams, but it is important that these teams are balanced by some experienced veterans. The four best players in a few minutes, who took part in the college in last year's National Championship Game, had been on college for three or more seasons. The 2023 title team from LSU had three starters who had played individually in more than 100 college games before the start of the NCAA tournament. Talent is undeniable, but experience is everything in March.

(Photo by Georgia Amoore: Andy Lyons / Getty Images)