Teams that burn you in the NCAA Tournament

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What teams tend to destroy your bracket in your NCAA pools?

"All of them" is the easy answer, but I seem to ride the fail train when picking Tennessee, Purdue, Gonzaga, Duke and every single Pac 12 team.

Who has been your Achilles Heel for years?
 
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What teams tend to destroy your bracket in your NCAA pools?

"All of them" is the easy answer, but I seem to ride the fail train when picking Tennessee, Purdue, Gonzaga, Duke and every single Pac 12 team.

Who has been your Achilles Heel for years?
Over the years it's been Michigan State they always seem to way underperform based off seed or overperform and I never pick either at the right time.
 

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I feel like Stephen F Austin and NM State have burned me recently.
 

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I remember picking Iowa State to win it all in 2001 and 2015 so yeah...
The deepest I've ever had ISU going in a 'serious' bracket is the Elite 8 in 2014 and 2015. Didn't burn me too bad in 2014 at least.

I probably wasn't filling brackets out in 2001 quite yet.
 

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The deepest I've ever had ISU going in a 'serious' bracket is the Elite 8 in 2014 and 2015. Didn't burn me too bad in 2014 at least.

I probably wasn't filling brackets out in 2001 quite yet.
I have a problem of picking with my heart and not my head regarding Iowa State.
 

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I have a problem of picking with my heart and not my head regarding Iowa State.
Same. If I were picking this years bracket with my head instead of my heart, I probably wouldn't have ISU in the round of 32 after beating LSU. But, here we are.