NCAA clip 2025: Some tips that you should consider when filling out your bracket

Buffalo, ny – it is this time of year in which everyone likes to complain about how his bracket is broken.

Yes, the NCAA tournament clip was published, and it is time to fill your tips with your friends, your family, people at work and with completely strangers that you will never meet.

Filling out brackets for fun never gets old. However, if you enter a competition with the chance to win prize money, there are some things you should consider to build a better bracket. You have to take some risks, but this is necessary if you want to harvest the rewards.

Here are some teams that you should avoid and take into account.

Avoid national champions that try to repeat.

Apart from Florida almost 20 years ago and Connecticut last year it just doesn't happen. Find someone who is new.

Avoid 1 and 2 seeds that are not classified in the top 25 of the pre -season.

These teams could not constantly produce the Final Four. Miami and Georgetown in 2013. Villanova in 2014. And I am sure that they remember Virginia, the top overall sowing in 2018, which lost to 16 seed umbc. Last year it was Iowa State.

Avoid St. Johns and Michigan State this year, both of whom were “received other voices” in the previous season.

Avoid top 4 seeds with low rating edges.

Winning close games in the regular season is one thing, but it is difficult to join for six games in March. Therefore, you want to avoid top 4 seeds that win games with an average of less than double-digit digits.

Avoid Alabama, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Arizona, Purdue and Texas A & M.

Pay attention to conferences.

Teams from the mountain vest tend to be below average annually. The opposite can be spoken by ACC outsiders; Since 1985, 10 out of 14 ACC teams have sown 10 or worse. In fact, 11 Seed North Carolina State did the Final Four only last year. Another thing: The big ten have not won a championship since Michigan State in 2000.

Avoid Big Ten Favorites this year and look at North Carolina if the Tar Heels should win their first four game.

Choose 1 dark horse to the elite eight.

A few teams sow 6 or worse in the elite. Just last year, 6 Saatgut Clemson reached the elite eight and 11 -seed state north Carolina and the final Four. One can certainly say that a dark horse will take an unexpected run. So don't be afraid to choose one and go with it.

This year I think about St. Mary's.

Choose a double -digit seed for the sweet 16.

Since 1985 there has been at least one double -digit seeds that survived the first weekend in all up to three years. There are a few years in which up to four teams do this. Maybe keep somewhere in between.

This year I think about VCU, UC San Diego, Liberty and Mcneese.

Don't go overboard on the first round.

The last thing you want is that your bracket is toast before you arrive for the first weekend. We all love Cinderella stories. Sometimes the best are those that we have never seen or that we have dared to choose.

Select 1 First Four Team in the second round.

Since the first four introduction in 2011, there has usually been a first four team to win a few games. If you look at X in Dayton, plan one of you to win two games. It will obviously not a 16 -seed.