Author: CBS Sports Staff / Source: CBSSports.com
The first round of the 2019 NCAA Tournament begins Thursday with a 16-game schedule that is sure to sap workplace productivity across America. Right now, millions of people are hastily filling out their 2019 NCAA Tournament bracket with hopes of dominating their friends, family and co-workers in a sport they might not know much about.
The 2019 March Madness schedule starts with Minnesota vs. Louisville at 12:15 p.m. ET, followed by SEC regular season champion LSU vs. Yale. Last year, Villanova won the national title and joined Kansas in the Final Four as 1-seeds. This season, Villanova head coach Jay Wright is making his sixth NCAA Tournament appearance, but Duke, Virginia, Gonzaga and North Carolina own the top lines on the 2019 March Madness bracket. There are plenty of underrated teams that could be this year’s Cinderella story, like SEC Tournament champion Auburn, MVC champion Bradley, or even Colgate, which is riding an 11-game win streak. Before entering your 2019 NCAA bracket predictions and college basketball picks, see what the unbiased SportsLine Projection Model has to say.Last year, SportsLine’s computer simulation nailed some massive upsets, including huge wins by No. 13 seed Buffalo over No. 4 seed Arizona, No. 11 seed Loyola-Chicago over No. 6 seed Miami, and No. 10 seed Butler over No. 7 seed Arkansas.
This model, which simulates every game 10,000 times, has nailed 12 of the 18 first-round upsets by double-digit seeds the past three years. Getting those picks right could literally make or break your March Madness bracket.
Now, SportsLine’s advanced computer model has simulated the entire NCAA Tournament 10,000 times to come up with the perfect 2019 NCAA Tournament bracket, and find out which teams will pull off the biggest upsets. You shouldn’t even think about making a pick without seeing what their model has to say.
What they found: No. 8 seed VCU falls to No. 9 seed UCF in the first round. The Knights take this matchup outright in over 60 percent of simulations, making it one of the computer’s highly…
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