It's not just Dickie V, our first president is also a Duke homer, as it turns out. With Inky, XL and I all filling out our brackets today, I felt it necessary to have a "control bracket" which I determined by flipping a quarter for each game. I put the #1 seeds into the second round without a toss o' the coin, because there is no chance one will lose, but for each game after that I flipped with heads going for the higher seed and tails the lower.
George Washington says Austin Peay will take down Texas, St. Mary's will make the Elite 8 and that Duke will win the whole thing. What can I say, he was from ACC country, and I guess since Virgina wasn't in it, he had to back Duke. GW's final 4 are: Duke, Michigan St. Tennessee and Gonzaga. He has UNC falling to Arkansas in the second round, which cleared a path for Winthrop to drop WSU, Notre Dame and Arkansas on the way to the Elite 8.
In the Midwest, Kansas survives all the way to the Elite 8, but they fall to the Zags who took out Davidson, Georgetown and USC to get there. Siena made the sweet 16 by beating Vandy and Clemson in a scenario that could actually come to pass.
Down in the dirty dirty south, Tom Izzo's Spartans batter Pennsylvania by topping Temple and Pitt before ousting Oregon and St. Mary's to earn their spot in the final 4. St. Mary's didn't have to worry about Texas after Austin Peay added themselves to the list of 2v15 upsets.
Out west, Duke's path to the title went through Belmont, Arizona, Baylor, UConn and MSU. UCLA made it as far as the Sweet 16 but they were stopped by UConn. Baylor made the most of their at large bid by winning over Purdue and Xavier and no teammates were killed.
In the end, I think our founding father has just as good a shot of winning the whole thing as either Inky, XL or I. Which is more than bit sad.
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