Despite many candidates vying for the role of Cinderella in the 2011 March Madness tournament, President Barack Obama’s Barackets remain super strong after the Sweet 16. The Barackets is still ahead of 96.8% of some 6 million ESPN Tournament Challenge entries because of the excellent upsets da Prez picked in the first and second rounds. However, the Barackets are now reliant only on Kansas, who the POTUS had picked to win it all.
The 2010 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, also known as March Madness, has just flaunted its reputation and showed why it has its nickname.
Overall #1 Kansas Jayhawks just got ousted by the Northern Iowa Panthers. In the ESPN brackets, 42.2% picked Kansas to win it all so their brackets are all but busted.
With another 2.2% picking Villanova to go all the way, 1.6% picking Georgetown and 0.3% picking New Mexico. Add together the other teams picked by people to win it all and you’ve basically have half the brackets all but busted since picking the winner is worth 320 points on its own! The only way these brackets can have any chance of winning would be if the other #1 and #2 teams start falling really fast!
And remember, I’m only reporting part way through Day 1 of 2 in the second round!
Congratulations to the University of Northern Iowa Panthers and other teams upsetting so far!
Congratulations to all the teams, and the Kansas Jayhawks for the overall #1 seed.
With the brackets announced, we’re ready to go with March Madness, so below are a few fun polls for you to answer. You can also share these with your friends by each poll or for the entire blog post. Please use the “Share” buttons as you see with each poll or at the bottom, respectively. You’ll only be able to vote once since the polls are blocked by cookies, unless you cheat and do some techie fix on your machine. As a result, I can leave some polls for the entire tournament! I will add more as results come in and new match ups appear, and close out some that no longer apply.
You can see the voting results by clicking on View Results for each poll. The first bunch of people will have to come back to see more meaningful results as the numbers pile up.
To start, the biggest question is who will win? To keep things manageable and practical, I will limit it to the top 4 teams in each bracket and a few votes for lower ranked teams by ranking.
Personally, I will use the results here by rank as a guide to construct some wallpapers for various schools in the upcoming weeks so there’s just a little at stake for me here.
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Of course, upsets are what makes March Madness so fun. So let’s start with the #1 teams.
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What about the #2 teams?
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And the top 4 teams (in each bracket) NOT making the Sweet 16?
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There is usually at least one #12 over #5 upset in the first round. You can pick as many answers as you think apply.
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How’s about the #10 and #11 team upsets?
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Any teams #13 and below you expect to win in the first round for a bigger upset?
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And let’s not forget the #8 and #9 teams which are the closest match-ups, but not always the closest games for some reason.
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Which #1 seed would you least like to see win?
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And to round out the business…
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Any other thoughts, advice or comments you’d like to share? Maybe a “Cinderella” team? There are too many teams for me to poll, and too vague a definition of how far one needs to go to be called a “Cinderella”. Maybe I can poll that later once a few team emerges, if a few team emerges.
