31 Automatic Bid - Dates And Conference Winners

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1. North Carolina Tar Heals (28-6) - [ACC]
2. Albany Great Danes (23-9) - [American East]
3. Belmont Bruins (23-9) - [Atlantic Sun]
4. George Washington Colonials (23-8) - [Atlantic 10]
5. Georgetown Hoyas (26-6) - [Big East]
6. Webber State Wildcats (20-11)- [Big Sky]
7. Winthrop Eagles (28-4) - [Big South]
8. Ohio State Buckeyes (30-3) - [Big Ten]
9. Kansas Jayhawks (30-4) - [Big 12]
10. Long Beach State 49ers (23-7) - [Big West]
11. Virginia Commonwealth Rams (27-6) - [Colonial]
12. Memphis Tigers (30-3) - [Conference USA]
13. Wright State Raiders (23-9) - [Horizon]
14. Pennsylvania Quakers (20-8) [Ivy League]
15. Niagara Purple Eagles (22-11) - [MAAC]
16. Miami (Ohio) Redhawks (18-14) - [MAC]
17. Florida A&M Rattlers (21-13) - [MEAC]
18. Oral Roberts Golden Eagles (23-10) - [Mid Continent]
19. Creighton Bluejays (22-10) - [Missouri Valley]
20. UNLV Rebels (28-6) - [Mountain West]
21. Central Connecticut State Blue Devils (22-11) - [Northeast]
22. Eastern Kentucky Colonels (21-11) - [Ohio Valley]
23. Oregon Ducks (29-7) - [Pac-10]
24. Holy Cross Crusaders (25-8) - [Patriot]
25. Florida Gators (29-5) - [SEC]
26. Davidson Wildcats (29-4) - [Southern]
27. Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Islanders (26-6) - [Southland]
28. North Texas Mean Green (23-10) - [Sun Belt]
29. Jackson State Tigers (21-13) - [SWAC]
30. New Mexico State Aggies (25-8) - [WAC]
31. Gonzaga Bulldogs (23-10) - [West Coast]

Part 3 - Tips To Win Your Office Pool

PLEASE NOTE: I'm not claiming to be any expert of any kind, but I'm continuing on with my tips on winning your office pool. I've never won my office pool in the 10+ years I've been doing this, but I have come very close, and finished very close to the bottom. Use these tips I've thought of, discovered, read about, and a bit of dumb luck at your own risk.

• Don't pick a team from the Big Sky, MEAC and Southland to win a first-round game. They're winless in the Division I playoffs since the field was expanded to at least 52 teams in 1983.
• Don't pick an at-large team with a losing conference record to get beyond the second round.
• Two of your Final Four picks should be teams that didn't finish atop their regular-season conference standings.
• Don't be too concerned about a regular-season defeat against a conference rival with a losing league record.
• Don't pick a team to reach the Final Four if it lost in the first round of a postseason conference tournament.

Part 1 - How to win your office pool
Part 2 - How to win your office pool
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Crusaders Of Holy Cross Enter The Tournament

Tonights only conference final saw the Holy Cross Crusaders from the Patriot conference defeat Bucknell for their fifth Patriot League Championship. Saturday's conference finals will be a busy day. There will be ten more automatic bids determined by days end with the last five schools on Sunday. The Big Ten conference usually is the final game of the day before the selection committee makes their final tournament bracket of 65 teams. It will be a busy weekend and a crazy week in the office pools for all of us fans.

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Updated Automatic Bids - Conference Winners

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Two More Enter The Big Tournament

With the longest school name in the country, Central Connecticut State Blue Devils win the Northeast Conference tournament, their conference regular season title and a trip to the big tournament that starts next week. Weber State Wildcats from the Big Sky conference were also victorious tonight over Northern Arizona and will join the rest of the schools who have automatic bids as of tonight.

Updated Automatic Bids - Conference Winners

Tips On How To Win Your Office Pool - Part 2

PLEASE NOTE: I'm not claiming to be any expert of any kind, but I'm continuing on with my tips on winning your office pool. I've never won my office pool in the 10+ years I've been doing this, but I have come very close, and finished very close to the bottom. Use these tips I've thought of, discovered, read about, and a bit of dumb luck at your own risk.

• Pick a team seeded 1 or 2 [there will be eight of them] to win the national title.
• Don't pick more than two of the four number 1 seeds to be the last four teams in the tournament. In 2006, not one of the number 1 seeds made it to the championship weekend. I'd call it a fluke year.
• Pick one team seeded 12th to reach the regional semi finals.
• Despite some success, and I do mean some, don't go too far with the number 4 and 5 seeds.
• Pick two teams seeded 13th to 15th to be victorious over teams seeded 2nd to 4th.

Part 1 - How to win your office pool