Unless you've never thumbed your way up the dial with your TV remote and stumbled past one of the ESPN offerings, it's physically impossible to watch less college basketball than I've watched this season.
However, it's downright un-American to avoid shelling out a few bucks on the office NCAA Tournament pool. And that's why I'm going to give you the best financial advice you've received ever since that day . . . oh, about a year ago . . . that your Uncle Ed told you to cash out and bury it all in the back yard.
Here's what you do: Take that bracket sheet, and in every single game, from first round to Final Four, pick the higher seed to win.
This will take some discipline, sure, but do it. DO IT.
On the final weekend of the regular season, as the conference tournaments wound down, a bunch of men (maybe women, too, for all I know) sat in a room and decided on the seedings for all four regionals and every other step along the way to the championship. These are folks who likely know more about college basketball than you, your brother, your brother-in-law and, obviously, me.
Trust them.
Sometimes they're wrong. But they have a better chance of being right than you do. No, really, they do.
You're welcome.
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