First things first. Make sure you enter the FanIQ vs "Experts" Bracket Contest. Quickly approaching 500 entrants and 35+ "experts." Remember you can still win a solid prize by recruiting the bracket winner if you don't fancy yourself a college basketball genius. I realize you don't care, but I'm going to give you my picks anyway. Here's where I'm at in the Midwest ...

Click the image to view full NCAA bracket predictions on Thursday. (Bracket Courtesy of ESPN.com) First, thank you ESPN.com for the NCAA Division 1 Men’s Basketball Tournament bracket. As the Celtics Editor, I can by default claim to be the one with the most basketball knowledge around. As a result, I’m laying down a challenge. My bracket will be better than ...

First things first. Make sure you enter the FanIQ vs "Experts" Bracket Contest. It's only Monday afternoon, but you've already beaten Dick Vitale and Andy Katz. They both picked all #1 seeds to Final Four. I realize you don't care, but I'm going to give you my picks anyway. I'm not willing to commit to my picks until I know the announcing schedule. The Gus factor most be taken ...

Need help filling in your bracket? CHN writers give their predictions below about who will be the big winners and losers of this year's bracket. See how these picks compare to CHN's Official Prediction .   Surprise = Team that will exceed expectations/seed Failure = Team that will underperform seed Upset = Projected 1st round upset special   Writer ...

Time for the Final Four Picks! EAST REGION PREDICTIONS MIDWEST REGION PREDICTIONS SOUTH REGION PREDICTIONS WEST REGION PREDICTIONS East Winner: Tennessee VS. Midwest Winner: Kansas This would be an exciting matchup between two teams with very potent offenses. Tennessee would come out and press all day, but Kansas has the guard play and ballhandling to handle the pressure. Tennessee would ...

The final region! ROUND ONE (1) UCLA over (16) Miss. Valley St. - I think the Bruins should be able to take this one. (9) Texas A&M over (8) BYU - I like the Cougars, but the Aggies are playing well right now and are just a little more talented. (5) Drake over (12) Western Kentucky - I'm really excited for this game. But I think Drake's team-oriented style will be able to overcome ...

Moving on to the South region... ROUND ONE (1) Memphis over (16) Texas-Arlington - Memphis wins a squeaker. (8) Mississippi St. over (9) Oregon - JaMont Gordon is the best player in this game, and he leads an underrated Mississippi St. club to a win over Oregon. (5) Michigan St. over (12) Temple - The Owls are becoming a popular upset pick, but I like Tom Izzo coached teams a lot. I like ...

20 hours left to sign up for the FanIQ vs "Experts" Bracket Contest . Nintendo Wii for the lucky bastard genius who wins it all. Many other goods available for those that beat all the experts and just by signing up, you're basically guaranteed to at least beat half of them. Alright, here's the final region picks, also known as the UCLA's practice before the Final Four. 1 UCLA ...

First things first, have you signed up to take on the experts? 24 hours left to get your bracket filled out and compare (likely beat) the likes of Gregg Doyel, Dick Vitale and now Bobby Knight. The General picked Pittsburgh.   I realize you don't care, but here are my thoughts on the South Region: 1 Memphis vs 16 Texas-Arlington (Fri, 9:55) Here's all you really need to know about ...

ESPN is giving you the opportunity to make 10 brackets, so while I concentrate on figuring out my final 'true' bracket I figured out a way to stupidly decide the games. The move was to pit the best NBA representative from each team against each other. If the team does not have an NBA rep than they used their leading scorer from their tournament team. Semifinals Allen Iverson ...

We've made our predictions , but what do other national experts and media publications have to say? Here's a sampling of what some of the big names say about the 2008 NCAA Tournament. Note that just about everyone picked UNC and UCLA to make the finals.. either we're all stupid or there's really two clear-cut favorites this year.  Time will tell.   Media  ...

I've never won an NCAA Tournament pool. I'm not a "bracketologist". I don't follow college basketball closely enough to make educated picks. I've been in a few pools with friends or co-workers and nine times out of 10, the winner is someone who knows next-to-nothing about college basketball (less than I do), and I end up feeling like I'd be better served tossing my entry fee into a paper ...

Moving on to the Midwest. ROUND ONE (1) Kansas over (16) Portland St. - The Jayhawks should dispatch of them pretty easily. (8) UNLV over (9) Kent St. - Kent St. is certainly a really good team, but I like UNLV. They're very well-coached by Lon Kruger, they have Tourney experience (at least, the few holdovers from last year), and they're fresh off winning the Mountain West. (5) Clemson ...

First up, all of my picks for the East region! ROUND ONE (1) North Carolina over (16) Play-In - Obviously. (9) Arkansas over (8) Indiana - Oh, how the Hoosiers have fallen. They have the talent to win this game and give UNC a scare, but not the heart. Razorbacks have the big men to contend with DJ White. (5) Notre Dame over (12) George Mason - Not a good matchup for the Patriots. They ...

FOR A COMPLETE BREAKDOWN OF THE NCAA TOURNAMENT, CLICK HERE When filling out your bracket, there are always those higher-seeded teams that are going to be upset early and ruin your predictions. It would be nice to know which clubs are the ones bowing out in the first couple of rounds. Teams that struggled down the stretch or have inflated records are prime examples of these types of busts. ...

The top 3 seeds in each region are: East #1 - North Carolina #2 - Tennessee #3 - Louisville Projected winner - North Carolina Midwest #1 - Kansas #2 - Georgetown #3 - Wisconsin Projected winner - Kansas South #1 - Memphis #2 - Texas #3 - Stanford Projected winner - Texas West #1 - UCLA #2 - Duke #3 - Xavier Projected winner - UCLA I really wanted to pick some ...

Apparently there's another consolation tournament this year called the College Basketball Invitational Tournament. So that means I have a bracket to fill out. I picked UVA to take down the inaugural tournament with a victory over Bradley. I will probably be wrong and then I will be devastated.

Today, Friday, and the Weekend ahead, provide College Basketball fans a small look into the future for what the NCAA Tournament will hold. And championship week is just exciting enough to require some predictions from yours truly. Some tickets to the big show have already been punched (Winthrop, Western Kentucky, and San Diego to name a few you might not have known), but others remain to be ...

Before this whole guessing games gets way out of hand, I thought I'd take another stab at this mess. Purely speculation at this point, but I've made the assumption that Kent State will not win the MAC and still slide in. Also, as I've noted this week, the crazy predictions that USC and Miss St will win their conference tournaments. Not so confident in the 8-9 seeding, but that's a coin ...

Where to begin. Heading into this one you have three teams locked into the NCAA Tournament and as many as three others who would like to get in. Two of those teams, Miami and Maryland play on the first day which means they have to win one for sure but in doing so play the next game at a bit of a disadvantage. In the bottom tier you have lots of talented players and teams who have made noise ...