NCAA Tournament Survivor Guide For the Elite Eight (Sunday)

If you competed in an NCAA Tournament survivor pool this year, you picked an incredible year to do so. This year’s NCAA Tournament had multiple massive upsets in each round. Thus, avoiding such upsets and keeping enough teams available to choose from made this one of the most challenging years for survivor pool contestants in recent memory. In addition, this is the first year ever where all No. 1 seeds have been eliminated before the Elite Eight and the first in history with one or fewer No. 1 and No. 2 seeds combined.

With just one set of games remaining until the Final Four, the end of your NCAA survivor pools is near. By now, you are down to just a handful of teams left to choose from, so hopefully, you have navigated a path that allows you to make it to the national championship game. However, if you have not and face a dead end with no teams left to choose from after this round, your strategy should shift to simply outlasting all your competitors.

Those varying strategies are on full display with Sunday’s window of games. If you have Texas and Creighton available, save whatever team you think is more likely to reach the national championship game and use the other. We discuss our thoughts on that specific plan in this column.

As we have done since the Round of 32, we rank all games in order of most confidence to least confidence and provide a short narrative for each.

  
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