Last-minute bracket changes: Wimping out on Butler-over-Syracuse pick; taking Northern Iowa over UNLV. … Sanest bracket I’ve ever done? Biggest first-round upset: #13 Murray St. Just two double-digit Sweet 16 teams (#12s Cornell & Utah State). Elite Eight is four #1s, two #2s and two #7s (BYU and Richmond). Final Four is Kansas, BYU, WVU & Duke.
Hmmm, this ff post appeared right after I submitted my LRT bracket. I think you’re copying me!
Heh. In point of fact, I have not looked at anyone else’s bracket except Becky’s (and hers is comically different than mine — for instance, we disagree on literally every single 5-12 and 4-13 game except Michigan State-New Mexico State (we both have Sparty in that one).
Oh, and Loyette’s. 🙂
Speaking of which, I have Vanderbilt losing in the first round to #13 Murray State… Becky has them losing in the second round to #12 UTEP… and Loyette has them winning the national championship. Heh.
Interesting question about the women’s bracket: should one pick UConn to go all the way, as sane people would do, or should one pick them to lose for differentiation’s sake? I say take them to the Final Four or national title game, and then pick another likely team to win. I have them losing to either Tennessee or Nebraska, just to make things interesting, and hoping that a UConn loss ruins most people’s brackets besides my own.