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So your NCAA bracket is busted. Should you have just chosen all the top seeds?

As the dust settles from the early rounds of the NCAA Tournament, we bid farewell to the would-be Cinderellas who couldn't pull off the upset and take stock of your tattered bracket.
Much like your bracket, the trendy upset pick Drake did not beat the odds.

There's a familiar pang of regret that comes for many NCAA basketball tournament fans every March.

You were filling out a bracket for March Madness, and you thought it would be fun to pick some underdogs. Then perhaps you got a little carried away — how could you not pick the Hilltoppers, whatever that is — and now, taking stock after the dust of the first round has settled, you wonder if maybe, just maybe, your bracket should have been a little more boring.

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