2023 March Madness Bracket picks: Cinderella teams, Optimal NCAA Tournament predictions, upsets, simulations

The first round of the 2023 NCAA Tournament tips off Thursday, as the 64 remaining teams battle it out to see who will be crowned NCAA Champion on Monday, April 3 at the 2023 Final Four in Houston. In what appears to be a wide open year with no prohibitive 2023 March Madness bracket favorite, our model analyzes each potential matchup to find the most logical picks for your bracket.

Our SportsLine experts and model have dissected all of the 2023 March Madness games and revealed their optimal bracket, upset specials, and more. Join SportsLine here to see what all our model and experts predict for the 2023 NCAA Tournament! 

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• SportsLine's optimal bracket beat over 92% of CBS Sports Bracket Challenge participants in two of the last four years.
  
  
• For bracket pools which reward more points for lower seeds winning, there's no better helper than SportsLine's upset bracket. Find the most likely upset picks to advance, all from the model that's nailed 18 upsets by double-digit seeds.
  
  
• As always, find information on each game throughout the NCAA Tournament on our college basketball pick sheet, which offers against the spread, money line, and over/under simulations.

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