Posted on 03/14/2012 4:09:12 PM PDT by Beaten Valve
President Barack Obama unveiled the first election-year NCAA tournament bracket of his term Wednesday—and he likes North Carolina to win it all. The last time Obama picked the Tar Heels? That was in 2009, after he ran in a pickup game with them while on the campaign trail, and UNC made the president look prescient by cruising to the title. Obama went with Kansas in 2010 and 2011, but the Jayhawks were bounced before the Final Four in both NCAA tournaments. Which brings him back to North Carolina, a swing state that went blue in 2008 for the first time in 36 years. “I am just a sucker for the Tar Heels,” Obama told ESPN.
The president predicted a national championship between North Carolina and Kentucky, two No. 1 seeds loaded with future NBA players. But the rest of his bracket isn’t so chalky. Unlike 2009 and 2011, when Obama moved all the top seeds to the Final Four, he has No. 2 seeds Missouri and Ohio State in the national semifinals this year. Obama also factored in some early-round upsets. All told, he predicted six double-digit seeds to make the Round of 32. Obama even has No. 11 seed North Carolina State in the Sweet 16. As for that other North Carolina team: Obama hosted Duke in the Rose Garden in 2010, and Mike Krzyzewski will coach Team USA in this summer’s Olympics, but the president forecasts a Sweet 16 exit for the Blue Devils (which might actually help him in some North Carolina polls).
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FUBO
This is the kiss of death for any team he has picked.
Say goodbye NC!
Pray for America
So glad he doesn’t have anything else to do.
I’d love to have a job like his, where i have no responsibility, don’t have to make any real decisions and all I have to worry about is the NCAA bracket. Sign me up. What a joke.
any real decisions and all I have to worry about is the NCAA bracket.
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And he ‘gives’ us 32 teams to immediately root against, at least hope he is eliminated early enough where we don’t have to ‘share’ his picks to the next bracket and the way the MSM is in love with him we will probably be subject to ‘watching’ the Championship game with him - especially if there are 2 or more of his (whoever) picks are in contention.
Does he have any idea how stupid and vapid he looks?
They are in ‘self-pleasure’ mode at ESPN...as usual.
I hope he had Florida losing to Virginia.
Delusional people with unlimited power is a dangerous combination.
I am glad he has his priorities straight.
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