My Underwhelming NCAA Tournament Bracket
Prepare to see my underwhelming NCAA Tournament Bracket! As I was going through it wasn’t until I got to the National Championship that I realized I went pretty much all chalk. I was a bit disappointed, but then remembered last year was anything but chalk… the sports gods will adjust.
In the 2023 Final Four there were no one seeds, two seeds, or three seeds. There were two fives, a four and a nine! That’s just not going to happen two years in a row. So as I went through my NCAA Tournament Bracket for this year’s games I realized that I haven’t really watched much college basketball this year. With no Philadelphia teams making much noise at all, plus life just getting in the way, I’ve been checked out.
We joked with Cindy Graham, who does our traffic reports, that she’ll probably do the best out of the 3 of us in the mornings. It’s because she watches zero sports, cares nothing about the tournament and picked her winner because she has auburn hair.
In my round of 64 I have some lower seeds knocking off higher seeds. A nine seed Northwestern upsetting eighth seed Florida Atlantic isn’t much to talk about, but Drake over Washington State gives you a bit of a thrill if you’re looking for the next NCAA Tournament Cinderella. My bigger 1st round upsets are 12 seed James Madison over five seed Wisconsin, because a 12/5 matchup is always prime for an upset. Then 11 seeded NC State beating six seeded Texas Tech. Why not!
After the first round I’ve got it pretty chalky the rest of the way through. In the sweet 16 I still have the top four seeds in the East, West and South all surviving. In the Midwest it’s one, five, six and two. From their the eight gets even more chalk, the top two seeds in every bracket. Next year I’ll just borrow some of my kids chalk and fill it out that way. UConn, Arizona, Houston and Purdue in the Final Four. That’s three #1 seeds and a #2!
Finally it’s what most people want to see outside of the round of 64, the best teams playing for a championship. It’s UConn over Purdue, making UConn the first back-to-back champions since the Florida Gators did it in 2006 and 2007.
To get you started for the best four days in sports, here it is, in all it’s underwhelming glory… Steve NCAA Tournament Bracket.
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