"To say that this Final Four may be one of the unlikeliest of the modern era would, for once, not be hyperbole. There is no No. 1 seed in the Final Four. There isn’t even a No. 2. VCU is an 11th seed. Butler is seeded eighth. Connecticut finished ninth in its conference."President Obama has been chided by pundits for selecting four No. 1 seeds, none of whom are in the final four. I've embedded at left a screencap of some of the predictions by the experts at ESPN. Of the 56 choices by 14 participants, only 2 made the final four.
Now, here's what's really amazing. The odds of someone picking this year's correct Final Four are terrible, but...
"Out of 5.9 million entries in ESPN’s Bracket Challenge, two people correctly called this group... ESPN had a phone interview with... Joe Pearlman of East Brunswick, N.J., this morning. He claims that his picks was based mostly on gut instinct..."Truly incredible.
Update, with Butler/Connecticut pending tonight. Again from the Wall Street Journal:
"Between the approximately 8.9 million entries in ESPN and Yahoo’s bracket challenges, only three entries predicted this Final Four. That’s 0.0000337% of all entries. Yahoo’s only perfect Final Four came from Diana Inch, a high school librarian in Oregon. Her strategy included picking teams whose names included the letters V or X and were seeded close to 7 or 11, her favorite combination of letters and numbers. VCU, an 11 seed, fit the bill. She then brought mascots into the mix, and came to the conclusion that UConn will defeat Butler on Monday, based mostly on the fact that she loves dogs and that UConn’s husky bears a resemblance to one of her own pets. “[I] thought that picking teams based primarily based on their seeding numbers and mascots would potentially irritate some of my male sports-obsessed colleagues,” Inch tells Yahoo’s Brad Evans..."
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