March Madness begins: advice for filling out your NCAA tournament bracket

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With the NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament set to start Thursday, many brackets are due by noon today. If you haven’t gotten yours in yet, we’ve got some last minute tips from freelance sports writer and contributor to SportingNews.com and the Wall Street Journal, Dan Shanoff.

We’ll also talk to Mike Hyland, who by day works as an engineer, but in March, he heads down to Las Vegas for his yearly pilgrimage of non-stop college basketball watching and sports betting.

See Ibrahim Abdul-Matin’s and Celeste Headlee’s brackets.

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