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Last Updated: March 22, 2024, 00:00 IST
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After the nation watched UConn roll via the NCAA Tournament final season, these filling out brackets for this yr’s March Madness count on the Huskies to repeat.
LAS VEGAS: After the nation watched UConn roll via the NCAA Tournament final season, these filling out brackets for this yr’s March Madness count on the Huskies to repeat.
UConn was named the champion on 32.3% of brackets submitted on CBS’s web site, distant the preferred alternative. Purdue was subsequent at 12.3%, adopted by Houston at 11.9% and North Carolina at 8.9%.
All 4 are No. 1 seeds, and at 3.8% are the more than likely Final Four, in keeping with the brackets. The subsequent closest at 2% contains No. 2 seed Arizona instead of North Carolina out of the West Region.
Mountain West event champion New Mexico, the 11 seed within the West, is the preferred double-digit choose to advance to the Sweet 16 at 14%.
UConn is also the favourite within the ESPN Tournament Challenge at 24.7%, adopted by Houston at 13.6% and Purdue at 10.1%.
A file 22.6 million brackets had been crammed out on ESPN’s web site, up 15% over final yr.
Sheldon Jacobson, who runs the BracketOdds web site, mentioned most individuals don’t take the right strategy to filling out their brackets, selecting video games from the primary spherical to the championship sport.
“Pick the best team you like in each of the regions and then build your bracket from there,” Jacobson mentioned. “When you do that, you’re actually eliminating some of the risk of making mistakes in the other parts of the bracket. It’s very counterintuitive, but that’s what our research paper showed.”
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AP March Madness bracket: https://apnews.com/hub/ncaa-mens-bracket and protection: https://apnews.com/hub/march-madness
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