NCAA March Madness

According to the New York Times article, "In N.C.A.A. Tournament, Overachievers Often Disappoint," there seem to be few trends that can be counted upon when filling out your tournament brackets.  Overall, there are always overachieving teams that under perform in the tournament and underachieving teams that over perform in the tournament.  There have been plenty of teams to make deep runs in the tournament that had little expectations going into the tourney.  Personally, I always try to analyze statistics when filling out my bracket.  However, I have seen that statistics are often not effective when predicting winners in the tourney.  All signs could be pointing towards a team to win a game, but they could still lose.  The facts are true in statistics as well.  If a team has a ninety percent chance of winning, they also have a ten percent chance to lose the game.  Although some trends and rankings on teams by various sources seem to be reliable, trends are always shifted around and broken every year in the tourney.  Overall, I look forward to what should be an exciting, although incredibly unpredictable NCAA tournament.