March Madness Picks: Best NCAA Tournament Bets From Every Seed Line
By Matt Snyder
No. 4 seeds: West Virginia
All four No. 4 seeds are relatively heavy favorites, but West Virginia should be the most safe. The computers like them as the eighth-best team in the tournament, and they’re 87.1% over Patriot League winner Bucknell.
No. 3 seeds: UCLA
You wouldn’t be completely wrong to take all the favorites from here on out, but you certainly want to be grabbing UCLA over Kent State. The Bruins are 91.9% favorites to advance to the round of 32.
No. 2 seeds: Kentucky
You should be picking all the No. 2 seeds, but, just to finish this thing off, Kentucky is the strongest favorite at 95.8% to beat Northern Kentucky. Don’t miss out on a potentially champion by getting far too cute in the first round.
No. 1 seeds: Gonzaga
Is this the year a No. 1 seed finally loses to a No. 16 seed? No. But maybe! But almost certainly no. All the No. 1 seeds are 96.5% or better to win with Gonzaga topping them all at 98.1%.
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So, those are the picks. How many of them will win? Some of them! How many will lose? Several. Will you hate your bracket after the second day? Almost certainly.