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March Madness: 4 Final Four picks, 4 teams to avoid, and 3 sleepers

By Noah Niederhoffer
Published March 21, 2019 1:35pm ET
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March Madness: 4 Final Four picks, 4 teams to avoid, and 3 sleepers
Duke's Zion Williamson (1) goes up to dunk against Florida State during the first half of the NCAA college basketball championship game of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament in Charlotte, N.C., Saturday, March 16, 2019. | (Chuck Burton/AP)

Thursday is the day college basketball fans have been waiting for since Villanova cut down the nets last year in San Antonio. March Madness tips off at noon, starting 24 hours of exciting first-round tournament games spread across 36 hours. The madness continues until April 8, when one team who outlasts the rest will cut down the nets in Minneapolis and hoist the NCAA men’s college basketball trophy. Here are four teams you might see there:

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