2015 NCAA Tournament: Thursday highlights, ATS picks, upsets, bracket advice …

There are perhaps no two better days in sports than the opening Thursday and Friday of the NCAA tournament as every team in the field has an opportunity to show what its made of in the round of 64. While there will surely be some dominant performances 

The tournament known as March Madness is notoriously difficult to predict. We analyzed 30 years of games to examine the likelihood of upsets – and came up with a bracket of our own as part of the experiment.

As is typically the case, the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee provided the sports world with a great deal to talk about in 2015.

There are perhaps no two better days in sports than the opening Thursday and Friday of the NCAA tournament as every team in the field has an opportunity to show what its made of in the round of 64. While there will surely be some dominant performances 

March Madness is the great equalizer, when a team with a shoe-string athletic budget flips the script on a power-conference team and makes it sweat for 38 minutes. Sometimes, though, that sweat becomes a full-on panic and that school busts the bracket.