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...what really makes the tourney reach sporting Nirvana is the bracket. Filling out a bracket for the tournament gives fans a rooting interest for every game. Do games such as Creighton—Florida or Indiana—San Diego State sound interesting? They do when you’ve picked one of those teams...
...would guess a fair majority of people in the country have filled out at least one bracket (to the percent that hasn’t: you haven’t lived yet). It’s a beautiful community thing for anyone to talk about. Hopefully, two weeks from now, when people want to start conversations they’ll ask “who is in your Final Four?” instead of “are you writing a thesis?” or “what are you doing next year...
...bracket is crucial. Last spring I was on a long travel break when the tournament came out, but I still managed to fill out my picks in 15 minutes in the computer room of a St. Petersburg hotel. And I still got half the Final Four right (par for my course...
...weeks from today, the euphoric event begins again. I will fill out my bracket hoping to make the correct pick for all 63 games, a hope likely to die in one of the very first games. I’ve had some moderate success in the past, getting two champions right (UConn 2004, Florida 2007) and I won a bag of candy I don’t like in my Expos class pool freshman year on the strength of six Elite Eights, two Final Fours, and UCLA in the title game. Oh yeah, I also picked Maryland...
...Kirby ’09 is a History concentrator in Pforzheimer House. His bracket is better than yours...