Bracket Filling For Those Who Are Not Fans Of NCAA Basketball!

Look I love sports as much anyone I know. But I have never been able to get into College Basketball. Don't get me wrong, its very entertaining. Just not something I choose to follow even remotely close. But I am still going to fill out a bracket, it just makes watching the tourney more fun. But if you are like me you have very little knowledge of a majority of the teams in the tourney. In fact some of the schools are schools you probably didn't know were in existence. Let alone D1 Schools that qualified for the NCAA tourney.

So how do you fill out a bracket? If you are suddenly serious about your bracket you may go the route of reading dozens of articles on who the experts think will win. But that just means a lot of work on a sport you don't much care about. Instead I propose having fun with it. Don't put money on your bracket, that sucks the fun out. Plus there is more pressure to fill out a serious bracket when there is any amount of money on the line.

Figure out a method to filling out the bracket. There are endless ways to do so that can bring out some hilarious results. My personal favorites are filling them by your favorite of the two Mascots in each matchup or who would win between the two teams if it was there nicknames battling it out. Of course that could mean having #7: Notre Dame Fighting Irish (featuring a fighting Leprechaun!) beating #2 Duke Blue Devils, because how can you ever argue against an angry Leprechaun? Heck I would probably have #16 UNC Asheville beating #1 Syracuse, because how does the color orange EVER beat a Bulldog? It never does. So there goes a quarter of your bracket right there. But still its fun.

Other fun random ways is picking names out of hats, picking teams based off of which name you like best, or nickname/mascot you like best. Finding out which celebrities went to the schools in the tourney and picking winners based off your favorites from that list. Who has the best Logo between the schools playing. Or going purely based off of seeding in each bracket.

After filling out your bracket, (and with the methods I described I would fill out multiple. Since once again no money is riding on it.) Keep track of your points and use them as cheering points while watching. And when New Mexico St upsets Indiana and you picked it right because Indiana does not have a mascot and NMSU features a cowboy named "Pistol Pete" you can talk all day about how you called it to everyone complaining about their busted bracket.

If your crazy method somehow ends up winning you an office pool or making you look like a basketball genius it makes it all worth the while. In the end just remember to have fun with it.