NBA All-Star calls out March Madness fans for making too many brackets: ‘Just so lame’

Before March Madness tips off with the first round Thursday afternoon, millions are scrambling to put together what they believe is the perfect bracket for the men’s and women’s NCAA tournaments.Some will fill out one, but others will try their luck with multiple brackets, mixing and matching their teams to produce what they believe is the best possible chance to win it all.One NBA All-Star believes those with multiple brackets are doing it the wrong way.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMTyrese Haliburton turned some heads among college basketball fans when he posted on X, “Make one bracket and stand on it.” As people weighed in in the comment section, Fox News Digital asked the Indiana Pacers guard why he feels so strongly that one bracket is the way to go this time of year.”I think it’s just so lame that people are like, ‘Oh, I made this many brackets.’ Like, dang, how many brackets do you get?” Haliburton said, highlighting his partnership with Reese’s and its March Madness Bracket Busting Campaign. “That’s not how it works. It’s because they can’t make up their mind.”As a society, this is not how the cookie crumbles. You have to make one choice and stand on it, and that’s how it goes.”COLLEGE BASKETBALL ANALYST JAY BILAS HAS ZERO CONCERNS ABOUT NIL AFFECTING MARCH MADNESS: ‘NEVER BEEN BETTER’Haliburton has looked at the debate within his comments, and there are some stances he can accept when building brackets this week.”I’ve seen people replying to my tweet with stances that make sense, which are, ‘I make one bracket that picks my alma mater to win even though it’s unrealistic. And then I make one that is logical.’ I said, OK, that I get, I guess,” he admitted. “But, at the same time, every year, if you don’t believe your alma mater is going to win — don’t pick them. Now, me, I picked my alma mater to win the national championship.”Haliburton’s choice of Iowa State makes sense in this case of choosing an alma mater. The Cyclones went 27-7 this year and earned a No. 2 seed in the Midwest Region of the 64-team bracket.”We’re a [No.] 2 seed — it can happen. It’s possible. But I think that other people who are scared to make that decision, that’s on them. They need to live with it,” he added.The Cyclones will take on No. 15 Tennessee State to begin the tournament, and while Haliburton is not taking a single team lightly, he’s confident his Iowa State squad has been “battle tested” enough to handle the March Madness field.”I didn’t blink when I made that decision,” he said about choosing Iowa State to win it all. “I knew I was going to make that decision going into it. But I think that it’s easy for me to make that decision because we are battle-tested. “We play in the best conference in basketball, which is the Big XIII. It’s not even close. Arizona, the team who ran through the whole conference, didn’t really have a problem with anybody, needed a Hail Mary fadeaway to beat us.”