Which teams are in Obama’s Final Four?
by Chris Strauss, USA TODAY Sports
The first time Barack Obama filled out an NCAA tournament bracket as president, he ended up picking the eventual national champion. He’s hoping to have the same luck with the first try of his second term, as ESPN released the president’s 2013 Final Four picks.
The commander-in-chief likes Louisville, Indiana, Ohio State and Florida to make it to Atlanta, with Baylor, Connecticut, Notre Dame and California advancing in the women’s bracket.
His entire bracket will be revealed at 9 a.m. ET Wednesday morning, but he likely hopes to improve on his performance last year, when he picked North Carolina to beat Kentucky, with Missouri and Ohio State rounding out his Final Four. Missouri’s opening round loss to Norfolk State ended up ruining that prospect, while North Carolina lost to eventual runner-up Kansas in the Elite 8.
In 2010 and 2011, Obama picked Kansas to win the title, with the Jayhawks suffering early losses in both tournaments. He certainly proved his proficiency in the early rounds in 2011 though, nailing 29 of the first 32 games to rank 492nd out of 5.9 million brackets heading into the Sweet 16 that year.
The president correctly picked North Carolina to win the title in 2009, the only one of his Final Four teams to advance that year.
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