# Help me pick a team in our NCAA Tournament "draft"

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [March 13, 2016, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-pick-a-team-in-our-ncaa-tournament-draft/748916 "2016-03-13T22:29:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2016, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-pick-a-team-in-our-ncaa-tournament-draft/748916/1 "2016-03-13T22:29:54Z")

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My workplace is holding a “draft” for the NCAA Tournament. We all get a draft position, and get to pick a team. Prizes will be awarded for the tournament winner, as well as for upset winners (a good way to keep the people in positions like 50th still interested).

This year, I have the 7th pick. Since I really haven’t followed college basketball this year, help me by suggesting a team I should pick, with your reasons why. If you just name a team, that does little to tell me why I should go for them. I know we have some of the smartest sports fans on the Internet\*; let’s prove it!

\*My cite is having read other message boards and comment sections. Oy vey!

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**Author:** ![dba\_Fred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c37758/32.png) [@dba\_Fred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dba_Fred)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-pick-a-team-in-our-ncaa-tournament-draft/748916/2 "2016-03-14T14:00:05Z")

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**University of Arizona Wildcats**  
Reason: I went to the University of Arizona.

Here’s a link with the odds of each team to win the tournament, choose the team with the best odd of winning it that wasn’t selected by the 6 people choosing ahead of you.

(FYI: my sports wagering is limited to betting a nickel on the outcome of the Army-Navy football game with my father)

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**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-pick-a-team-in-our-ncaa-tournament-draft/748916/3 "2016-03-14T15:50:54Z")

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> [@dba\_Fred](#):
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> **University of Arizona Wildcats**  
> Reason: I went to the University of Arizona.
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> Here’s a link with the odds of each team to win the tournament, choose the team with the best odd of winning it that wasn’t selected by the 6 people choosing ahead of you.
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> (FYI: my sports wagering is limited to betting a nickel on the outcome of the Army-Navy football game with my father)

Well, that’s 5 cents more than what I have spent!

I wound up picking Kentucky, the fourth choice on that page, even though I suspect those odds are lower than they should be because it’s UK. (The same is probably true for Duke.)

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**Author:** ![dba\_Fred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c37758/32.png) [@dba\_Fred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dba_Fred)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-pick-a-team-in-our-ncaa-tournament-draft/748916/4 "2016-03-16T08:27:05Z")

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A least you picked a Wildcats 🙂