What should you pick for the total points in the March Madness 2024 final for your bracket tiebreaker? Here's an answer

It’s the question you ask yourself every year when you’re filling out a March Madness bracket: what number should I pick for the final tiebreaker that’s usually the total points that will be scored in the final?

It’s tricky, because you obviously don’t know which teams will be in. Will it be a high-scoring affair or a defense-first kind of contest?

Without that knowledge, we have to revert to what we do know: we can look at past scoring totals, average them together and spit out a number that you can use.

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Let’s look at the past seven point totals from men’s March Madness finals:

2016: 151

2017: 136

2018: 141

2019: 162

2021: 156

2022: 141

2023: 135

That’s an average of 146. So maybe use a number around that one!