Well, none of you predicted the Final Four. I suspect no one in the country predicted the Final Four! It seems like in every NCAA tournament some little college comes out of nowhere and does really well. But this year two such underdogs made the Final Four! The basketball superpowers, including my alma mater Kansas Jayhawks, were all shot down. So the national champion will be either Virginia Commonwealth, Butler, Connecticut, or Kentucky. The two big state schools will play each other, and the two little schools will play each other. So one of the latter will be in the final two.
Predictions? Are you pulling for the underdogs? Is anyone for the overdogs, on principle? I think I will be for Virginia Commonwealth, now that they beat Kansas and now that I live in the Commonwealth of Virginia. (Not a state, mind you, but a commonwealth.)
2011 Bracket – NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament History – The Washington Post.
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