2024 NCAA Tournament bracket predictions: March Madness expert picks, favorites to win, Sweet 16, upsets

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NCAA Tournament action picked up Thursday with the first half of the Sweet 16 and continues into Friday where a final 12 teams will by night’s end be whittled down to eight as we gear up for the penultimate weekend of the postseason.

Buckle up, because if your bracket hasn’t already completely busted, March Madness has seemingly found a way to rectify that. No. 6 seed Clemson’s win Thursday night over No. 2 seed Arizona certainly did it for me, knocking out one of my Final Four teams. So if that happened for you, just take solace in the fact that you are not alone.

Our CBS team hasn’t been perfect thus far, but I’ll toot our horns here: we’ve been pretty darn good. As you can see in scanning our expert brackets below, each of us still have our champion pick in the hunt as we prep for the last cutdown of the Sweet 16 on Friday. You can also find all our picks against the spread here.

OK, let’s dive into the good stuff: The brackets. …  

2024 NCAA Tournament bracket predictions

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Gary Parrish

Watching UConn become the first back-to-back national champion since Florida in 2006 and 2007 would be a blast. And let the record show that the Huskies are the betting-market favorites. So I realize picking against them might prove dumb. But, that acknowledged, I’m going to continue to do what I’ve been doing most of this season and put my faith in the Boilermakers. Wouldn’t that be a great story — Purdue winning the 2024 NCAA Tournament after losing to a No. 16 seed in the opening round of the 2023 NCAA Tournament? Zach Edey holding the championship trophy as a two-time national player of the year? Matt Painter shedding his label as the best coach yet to make a Final Four by becoming the first coach to take Purdue to the final weekend of the season since 1980? It’s all such good stuff. Just getting to the Final Four will be challenging considering Tennessee, Creighton and…

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Author : Kyle Boone

Publish date : 2024-03-29 13:15:41

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