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NCAA Basketball Tournament: Monday's Bracket Tips
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March 16th, 2009
by Jon Teitel
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Avoid OU as Your Champ?
Jon Teitel's Bracket Tactics will help you finish at the top of your NCAA Tournament Pools..
Monday's Tips
TIP #1: 7 of the last 10 NCAA champs won their conference tournament before rolling off 6 straight wins in the NCAA Tournament.
STRATEGY #1: Pick a champ who also won its conference tournament last week.
MEANING: Duke, Louisville, Memphis, and Missouri could be very dangerous teams.
TIP #2: No team that lost the first game of its conference tournament has ever won the NCAA title the same year.
STRATEGY #2: Do not pick a champ who lost the first game of its conference tournament.
MEANING: Take a long, hard, look at Kansas, Oklahoma, Pittsburgh, and Wake Forest before penciling them is as your 2009 NCAA Champs.
TIP #3: 2 teams in each Final Four since 2003 have been members of the same conference.
STRATEGY #3: Pick 2 teams who play in the same conference to make the Final Four.
MEANING: Don't be afraid to go with multiple Big East or ACC teams in the Final Four.
Check back tomorrow for more of Jon's Bracket Tips.
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About Jon Teitel
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Penn/Ivy League Columnist
Contact
teitel@alumni.upenn.edu
Background
Jon attended college at the University of Pennsylvania (class of 1996) and law school at the University of Arizona (class of 2001), so his 2 favorite college teams are the Quakers and the Wildcats. While at Penn, Jon was the sports director of the school TV station, where he covered their 1994 and 1995 NCAA tournament appearances. He has also worked as a production assistant for ESPN, and a broadcast assistant for CBS during 2 different NCAA tournaments. He currently works as an investigator for the federal government in Washington, DC.
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