2018 NCAA Conference Tournament Picks and Payouts

As promised, here's a graphical breakdown of everyone's picks as well as payouts.  Let's get the payouts out of the way...

1st - $650
2nd - $280
3rd - $120
4th - $70

Ok, let's see how people picked...

A-10 - Davidson ends up just barely most picked with 20.7% of the picks.  VCU ends up 2nd probably b/c they're just a name people know.  Shaka Smart is still in Texas everyone.


AAC - Not too surprisingly, about 2/3rds of the entries include Cincy or Wichita.  Lot of Houston love too, which I assume is a lot of bitter IU fans living vicariously through one of their better coaches in the post-Knight era.



ACC - When a top 10 team gets a six-seed in any tournament, they're gonna be popular.  UNC appears on more entries than any other team



Big 12 - Just like the conference itself, this graph is a mess.  West Virginia slightly leads what is one of the more wide open affairs this weekend.



Big East - I'm shocked more people didn't pick Villanova.  I guess some people thought Dougie McBuckets never left Creighton.



Mountain West - Kinda surprised there weren't more Nevadas given that they're a Top 25 team and one of the heavier favorites.  Lot of people went 5+ here after presumably picking every other conference and then realizing I made them learn who Fresno St. was again.



Pac-12 - Another mess, probably b/c again, nobody knows about the conference and its a shitshow anyway.  Nobody picks USC, who has a cakewalk to the finals.



SEC - Not too surprised to see BBN as the most popular SEC pick given just how bad the 4 line seemed to be this year.  However, you can't feel great about that pick with the news that top freshman Michael Porter Jr is coming back for Mizzou, who is more than likely UK's first opponent.