All No. 1s in the Final Four? Who Could Have Predicted That?

Hope you all had a chance to get tickets to see the Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight games this weekend. It was a wild one, but one that could have been easily predicted by any office secretary who can count to sixteen. After all of the games, all of the upsets, all of the last-second shots and missed free throws, all four No. 1 seeds have advanced to the Final Four in San Antonio- the first time such a thing has happened in the history of the NCAA Tournament.

Last year the Final Four featured two No. 1 seeds. In fact, that’s how it usually averages out. However, this year was very good for the selection committee, and very good for uncreative bracket filler-outers. There will be no underdog Davidson, no 3-seed Stanford or Xavier. Nope. Only the entrenched powers will survive, and you can guarantee that the national title game will pit two No. 1s against each other, so the odds makers are going to have a heck of a time trying to predict it.

Here’s an Andy Katz breakdown of the Final Four teams, Kansas, UCLA, North Carolina and Memphis. People who played it save are going all the way to the bank this year. People, like Your’s Truly, who picked some underdogs, and though that the committee would get it just a little bit wrong, are long gone form winning the office tournament bracket pool.

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