For college basketball junkies, this is the best week of the year. Selection Sunday through the end of the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament is the greatest eight-day span on the sports calendar, and 2022 marks the first time since 2019 that the NCAA Tournament will be “back to normal” with full crowds in the stands.
But even casual fans of college basketball go through annual ritual of filling out a bracket in an attempt to predict which crazy upsets will occur during the first two days, which teams will make the Final Four, who will finally cut down the nets on that first Monday of April and everything in-between.