Bill Plaschke: Here's how to pick the winners in your NCAA tournament pool
by Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times
Mar 12, 2018
3 minutes
The NCAA basketball tournament is many wonderful things. But if you want to win your office pool, you must focus on what it is not.
It is not a Cinderella story.
Despite all the highlights of buzzer-beating tears, obscure dancing mascots and little fellas leaping off the ends of benches, this is not a tournament for lower-seeded teams and long shots.
Since the seeding began in 1979, the top four seeded teams have made the Sweet 16 more than all the other seeded teams combined. At least two No. 1-seeded teams have made the
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