🏀 Scouting Report: March Madness (Round of 64)

March Madness has officially arrived, BettrNation family 🙌 Coincidentally, businesses throughout the country are also preparing for countless sick days across their workforce, which appears to be an annual thing this time of year 😉 (Good thing AI can now start doing some of the work, right? 😅) Bosses will be staring at empty desks and unanswered emails today, and we are not here to judge. We are here to help you make the most of every minute of it 👏

Sixty-four teams. Two days. And a bracket that's already laughing at you. But there is opportunity in the chaos, if you look in the right places. Duke, Michigan, Arizona, and Florida headline the 1-seeds across a busy first weekend of action that tips off around noon today and doesn't stop until the clock strikes midnight on Sunday! (Did you catch the Cinderella reference there? 🪄) The 12-seeds are circling, the 9-seeds are dangerous, and chaos is the only certainty on the board. Let’s make sure to spread some of that chaos to the books this weekend too 😉

Before you lock in your picks - Kalshi is running a $1 billion perfect bracket contest but entries close today so be sure to drop in a bracket really quick, even if you have your dog make the picks. (We aren’t an affiliate or anything - just flagging if you are feeling confident about your bracket and want to make some money. If you win, though, happy to take an investment 😂) The odds are somewhere between "very unlikely" and "cosmically impossible," but the top non-perfect bracket still wins a million. Worth two minutes of your fake sick day.

Let's find some edges in the madness. 🎯

Today’s Schedule: NBA || CBB || NHL || Soccer

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