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Bet on Ben Howland - Lose Your Bracket

Rick Reilly says if you bet on this guy, you'll lose your coat. And more. - USA TODAY Sports

In case you need to make sure you LOSE your NCAA pool, so as to keep your boss or father-in-law or girlfriend happy, Rick Reilly's weekly column on ESPN.com presents a variety of logical, clever, and subtle ways to help you out.

Reilly offers some awesome hints like the fact that a team in purple has never won the tourney (too bad, Huskies); or that the nation's scoring leader hasn't won a tourney since 1954 (too bad, VaTech), or a team with the word South has never won the tourney (too bad, South - ern Cal).

And then there was this advice, if you really want to be sure to lose:

*Bet on UCLA coach Ben Howland. You'll be happy.

*Bet against VCU coach Shaka Smart. You'll be happier.

(*If you happen to run UCLA athletics, dump Howland and hire Smart. You'll be happiest.)

That's from a premiere national sports columnist.

But Bruins Nation is just so negative...

Or, so right.

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