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SB Nation NCAA Bracket War Room 2018: Tournament predictions, advice for first of the First Four

The 2018 SB Nation Bracket War Room is LIVE to help answer all your bracket questions. We’ll be around all week long with a new post each day. Drop by so we can try and help you win your bracket pool this year!

NCAA Men’s Final Four - National Championship - Villanova v North Carolina
NCAA Men’s Final Four - National Championship - Villanova v North Carolina
Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images

Welcome to the 2018 SB Nation Bracket War Room! SB Nation has run a fantasy football live chat during the NFL season called the Fantasy War Room. The notion behind it was to put our experts at your disposal to help you answer those burning questions for your fantasy football lineups.

The NCAA tournament field is set, and we are a little over 24 hours away from the opening game of the First Four matchups. You can print out your bracket here, and start figuring out who you think will go all the way, who will be stunned in the first week, and plenty more. We’re back with the “war room” idea to help you with bracket advice.

You have numerous brackets, and plenty of bragging rights and other assorted “things” on the line. This chat is meant to provide you with all the advice you can handle from our college basketball experts. We will have a mix of talent providing advice this week. Some days you’ll get a mid-major expert, other days a major conference expert, and other days a national writer who covers a little bit of everything.

All questions will be answered by the user name “SB Nation Bracket Advice”. Others are welcome to chime in, but that username represents the “official” SB Nation advice.

If this is your first time commenting at SB Nation, you have two quick options to register:

1) On the top right side of the page, you’ll see Log In and Sign Up. Click on Sign Up.

2) Scroll to the bottom of the page. You’ll see an option that says “Something to say? Choose one of these options to log in.”

Asking follow-up questions

It’s fairly straight forward to post a question. If you get an answer and have a question about that answer, please hit the reply button, rather than posting a new comment at the bottom.

2018 SB Nation Bracket War Room schedule (all times ET)

Selection Sunday

6:15 p.m. - 8 p.m.: Caroline Darney (SB Nation college league manager, Streaking The Lawn)

Monday

8 a.m. - 11 a.m.: Caroline Darney (SB Nation college league manager, Streaking The Lawn)

6 p.m. - 8 p.m.: Chris Dobbertean (SB Nation bracketologist)

Tuesday (First Four)

8 a.m. - 11 a.m.: Matt Brown (SB Nation college manager)

7 p.m. - 11 p.m.: Russ Steinberg (Mid Major Madness)

Wednesday (First Four)

8 a.m. - 11 a.m.: Russ Steinberg (Mid Major Madness)

7 p.m. - 11 p.m.: Robert O’Neill (Big East Coast Bias co-managing editor)

Thursday

8 a.m. - first tip-off: Russ Steinberg (Mid Major Madness)

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