The brackets for the 2025 NCAA Tournament were announced Sunday night, and no more than 10 minutes later you received a flood of texts and emails from friends and family asking you to join their bracket pool.
As if you needed to be asked? You join every year! And, like almost everybody who joins a bracket pool, you lose every year. Winning a bracket pool isn’t easy, and it takes a lot of luck. There’s a skill to it as well, though.
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While having a strategy can’t guarantee success, there are a few ways to increase your odds. Whether you’ve been following college basketball all season and know the teams inside and out, or you just showed up this week with a printed bracket ready to cram for a final by Thursday morning, here are a few tried and true methods.
First things first, you have to pick the winner correctly. The way scoring is set up in most bracket pools, picking the champion is an absolute necessity. You might have gone 30 for 32 in the first round, but if you don’t pick the right winner, you’ll be telling all your friends about…
