March 19, 2012, 10:05 am
Wow, did I ever stink it up with my brackets over the weekend. Worst I have ever done, and it had nothing to do with missing the two 15-2 upsets (everybody missed those). The only good news is that I am ahead of my son Nic. My traditional bias against all schools Ohio definitely hurt me.
Anyway, congrats to those who were far more prescient:
I am not sure who does it, but we have a reader who faithfully enters the President's bracket into the pool each year, and I must say that Barack does seem to know his college hoops.
UPDATE: Special congrats to Mike Langan, who due to the vagaries of the CoyoteBlog traditional scoring system is in second, but his bracket based on number of correct picks is actually in the top 50 of 88,000+ brackets at PickHoops.com.
April 7, 2011, 10:15 am
Our winner was Scott Strattner, congratulations! It was a weird year, obviously. Scott won despite getting only one team right out of the final four, though that was pretty much par for the course this year. Here is the top 10:
I managed to come in 61st, or exactly in the middle. That's actually pretty good since I only got 6 of the sweet-16 right. I lost, though, to every other member of my family.
March 21, 2011, 11:41 am
Here is the top 10 in the bracket challenge after the first week. Sadly, both of my brackets are in the bottom half. Apparently, it is statistically impossible for me to do better than 15th place (thank God for technology so that hope is dashed and I can no longer fool myself about my future chances). Even worse, my son made the top 10. More results here.
It is good to see the President take time out of his busy schedule to submit a bracket in our competition.
