How to Join March Madness and Pick Your NCAA Brackets

Filling out your NCAA bracket during March Madness is a rite of passage; and it's also everybody's favorite time of year. Everybody, that is, besides spurned wives and girlfriends and the employers who annually lose billions of dollars worth of productivity to the NCAA tournament games. But maybe those groups put the "madness" into March Madness. For the rest of us, it's time to put a "method" into your "madness". Here are the 5 tips you need to know for a winning NCAA bracket come tourney time, every year. Hey, I've won my NCAA bracket during March Madness 2 of the last 4 years; if you have done better, you wouldn't be reading this, would you?

Tip 1 for a winning NCAA bracket during March Madness: Age discrimination

Come NCAA Tournament time, experience rules the field. You want to look for teams that have been to the tournament before and know what to expect. These teams will have juniors and seniors that are mature (physically and mentally) and experienced. Picking experienced teams is always a key factor to a winning NCAA bracket. Want some experienced teams in this year's March Madness field? UCLA, Georgetown and UNC have been there and done that.

Tip 2 for a winning NCAA bracket during March Madness: The dominant force

The only thing that has a chance to trump the experienced team is the team with the absolute stud, the dominant player who can take over a March Madness game and make it bend to his will. Find the dominant player you believe in, no matter how old or inexperienced, and ride his team to NCAA bracket success this March Madness. Think about what Carmello Anthony did in the NCAA tournament several years ago; that's how I won the NCAA bracket pool I was in that year. Who are some players with a chance to dominate March Madness 08?Derrick Rose of Memphis, Eric Gordon of Indiana, Michael Beasley of Kansas State and Tyler Hansbrough of UNC come to mind.

Tip 3 for a winning NCAA bracket during March Madness: The 5-12