2024 March Madness Bracket picks: Cinderella teams, Optimal NCAA Tournament predictions, upsets, simulations
Find everything you need to know for picking the best 2024 NCAA Tournament bracket with our 2024 March Madness simulation
The first round of the 2024 NCAA Tournament tips off Thursday, March 21, as the bracket will battle it out to see who will be crowned NCAA Champion on Monday, April 8 at the 2023 Final Four in Phoenix. In what appears to be a wide open year with few prohibitive 2024 March Madness bracket favorite, our model analyzes each potential matchup to find the most logical picks for your bracket. Should you choose No. 1 overall seed UConn? What about other top seeds like Houston, North Carolina, and Purdue?
Our SportsLine experts and model have dissected all of the 2024 March Madness games and revealed their optimal bracket, upset specials, and more. Join SportsLine here to see what all our model and experts predict for the 2024 NCAA Tournament!
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- For bracket pools which reward more points for lower seeds winning, there's no better helper than SportsLine's upset bracket. Find the most likely upset picks to advance, all from the model that's nailed 20 upsets by double-digit seeds.
- As always, find information on each game throughout the NCAA Tournament on our college basketball pick sheet, which offers against the spread, money line, and over/under simulations.
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