This is always one of the most exciting (and long) week's of the sports betting season as March Madness attracts no shortage of action. With all the excitement and publicity the tournament brings, office pools pop up everywhere and recreational bettors flood the market with action. With all that money in play and shifting lines around, there can be some very profitable spots in college basketball betting over the next few weeks, so let's go over a few general things I always keep in mind at this time of year. NCAA March Madness Strategies 1: Don't fall in love with your bracket or avoid them all together. Bracket pools are always fun and exciting to get involved with and you can win some decent paydays in pools with a successful bracket. But the majority of the time brackets are busted early and often with losses piling up everywhere. You've probably (or will) spend quite a bit of time going through your picks for the tournament and what not, which is fine, but don't fall in love with those selections as the tournament goes on - even if you've nearly gone perfect up till the later rounds. I say that because the point spread is always the great equalizer in sports betting and you'll always tend to have a bias when handicapping later games based on your bracket selections. Handicapping games takes a lot of work to find winners and if you are already attacking them with a bias towards your bracket selections you are doing yourself a disservice. You aren't taking in all of the information as an objective viewer and when you do back those teams you picked in your bracket and they lose, [...]