PLEASE NOTE: I'm not claiming to be any expert of any kind, but I'm continuing on with my tips on winning your office pool. I've never won my office pool in the 10+ years I've been doing this, but I have come very close, and finished very close to the bottom. Use these tips I've thought of, discovered, read about, and a bit of dumb luck at your own risk.

• Don't pick a team from the Big Sky, MEAC and Southland to win a first-round game. They're winless in the Division I playoffs since the field was expanded to at least 52 teams in 1983.
• Don't pick an at-large team with a losing conference record to get beyond the second round.
• Two of your Final Four picks should be teams that didn't finish atop their regular-season conference standings.
• Don't be too concerned about a regular-season defeat against a conference rival with a losing league record.
• Don't pick a team to reach the Final Four if it lost in the first round of a postseason conference tournament.

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