UCLA, South Carolina, Texas and USC — comfortably defeated their opponents by an average margin of victory of 47 points.

Let's establish the obvious disclosure up front — when it comes to picking NCAA tournament champions in your bracket, the chalky teams are usually your friends, despite the moniker of "March Madness" ...

The teams are selected, seeded and placed in a bracket by an NCAA committee made up of 12 members. The brackets are broken up into four regions: Midwest, East, South and West. The goal of the ...