President Obama picks Kansas to win national title
A. Isaac In what has become a yearly tradition of sorts, President Obama sat with ESPN’s Andy Katz to reveal his NCAA bracket. Oddly enough, the president chose the Kansas Jayhawks to win the national title….AGAIN. If you recall, he did the same thing last year and got burned when Rock-Chalk-Jayhawk dropped a deuce against the 9th seeded Northern Iowa Panthers.
Here’s President Obama’s bracket in its entirety
A quick breakdown of some of his upsets.
#11 Marquette over #6 Xavier
#12 Richmond over #5 Vanderbilt
#10 Florida State over #7 Texas A&M
#11 Gonzaga over #6 St. John’s
#10 MSU over #7 UCLA
So pretty straightforward on the President’s part. He has no team seeded higher than 5 making it to the Sweet 16 and he took all four #1 seeds to the Final Four. If Obama’s goal was to stay away from controversy and ride the fence, he certainly played that part to a ‘T’.
Next year should be a lot more interesting though. With his 2012 re-election campaign going full force in March, will his political advisors tell him to choose schools from key swing states? Presidential elections the last few years have come down to just a few states here and there. An Ohio, a Florida, and maybe one southern state can essentially decide the whole damn thing.
So if I’m a betting man, I’d guess that the Buckeyes and the Gators make prominent appearances in his bracket in 2012. That is, if Obama cares to be in office for another four years.
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