We’ve reached the home stretch of the 2024 NCAA Tournament, and a bracket once filled with 68 teams is suddenly pared down to four. All that’s left on the schedule are three games from Glendale, Arizona, for the Final Four, where a champion will be crowned.
The Final Four’s doubleheader action will tip on Saturday, starting with No. 1 seed and reigning national champion UConn taking on No. 4 seed Alabama. A nightcap between No. 1 seed Purdue and No. 11 seed NC State follows. Winner advances to the title game and loser goes home as the stakes ramp up even more.
If by now your bracket has already been fully busted entering the final weekend of college basketball, just know, dear reader, that you are far from alone. Even our experts – whose full brackets are below in all their glory – didn’t nail every pick. But whether you’re still making picks, making some bets or just curious to see how we’ve fared, you can see how we all picked things in the space below.
OK, let’s dive into the good stuff: The brackets. …
2024 NCAA Tournament bracket predictions
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Gary Parrish
Watching UConn become the first back-to-back national champion since Florida in 2006 and 2007 would be a blast. And let the record show that the Huskies are the betting-market favorites. So I realize picking against them might prove dumb. But, that acknowledged, I’m going to continue to do what I’ve been doing most of this season and put my faith in the Boilermakers. Wouldn’t that be a great story — Purdue winning the 2024 NCAA Tournament after losing to a No. 16 seed in the opening round of the 2023 NCAA Tournament? Zach Edey holding the championship trophy as a two-time national player of the year? Matt Painter shedding his label as the best coach yet to make a Final Four by becoming the first coach to take Purdue to the final weekend of the season since 1980? It’s all such good stuff. Just getting…
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