President Obama’s Barack-et had two more double-digit losses to Breitbart Sports picks Sunday, guaranteeing that the commander-in-chief cannot catch Breitbart Sports’s bracket even if the president’s picks on the remaining 15 days of March Madness all come in correct.
Dave Zirin, Sports Editor for the Nation magazine, ripped the NCAA as “rank exploitation” and a “sham” on Saturday’s “Melissa Harris-Perry” on MSNBC. “Who are we really tuning in to watch? Who is wearing the corporate logos as they run
West Virginia, which voted 62%-36% against President Obama in 2012, beat his bracket pick Friday, or at least the state’s marquee college basketball team did, to push him behind Breitbart Sports. Then Mountaineers coach Bob Huggins said he does not pay any attention to President Obama.
Charlie Sheen took to Twitter Wednesday to share his disdain for President Obama’s ESPN March Madness appearance, and after being labeled a “racist” by some news outlets for his use of Ebonics slang terms and a “birther” reference, refused to back down on Friday.
Best Madness Predictor? If you went with the Breitbart Sports published brackets for each region you are a strong 12-4, but if you simply took the team with the best Value Add player in each game you are definitely winning your bracket at 14-2.
After a record five one-point games in a single day, March Madness resumes at 12:15 pm ET with Kansas against New Mexico State.
Sixteen games play on four networks for the next twelve hours. Skip your local listings and check Breitbart Sports’s tournament TV schedule.
Your bracket must be in by Thursday’s 12:15 ET tipoff between Notre Dame and Northeastern. The table included in the article outlines nine different paths to the title by evaluating the 64 remaining teams using nine separate measures.
Gonzaga has their best shot to make the Final Four, and they are virtually even with Duke as the top two teams in the region.
When the No. 1 seed in a bracket already beat the No. 2 seed (Kansas) 72-40 this season, one sees why the top seed plays as such a huge favorite. Two bigger threats to Kentucky than Kansas appear to be Wichita State and Notre Dame, teams who look evenly matched with each other.
The East looks the most wide open, with five teams within 10 points of each other when comparing seven categories.
Last year, it was Southern Methodist. This time around it’s Temple. Teams are sensing an anti-American sentiment coming from the NCAA selection committee. And we’re not talking about anti-Americanism in the sense of the flag-grabbing students at UC-Irvine.
Four of the last six years the No. 1 Value Add player has led his team to the title. The two exceptions were when Kemba Walker finished No. 2 in 2011 and led UConn to the title, and when No. 1 Trey Burke’s Michigan team lost to the 2013 Louisville team, one of only three schools to ever have three of the top 30 Value Add players (Duke 2010 and this year’s Kentucky are the other two).
Despite 29 points from Jared Brownridge, Santa Clara became the 22nd team eliminated this weekend. It happened on a jumper by BYU’s Tyler Haws after midnight on Saturday.
Nearly 300 teams remain alive for 68 NCAA tournament spots.
The 15 hottest conferences in the new Value Add Rankings are led by the Missouri Valley (N. Iowa’s Seth Tuttle makes case for Player of the Year by crushing Wichita State), Sun Belt (top-100 players face off in battle of Georgia schools today), Atlantic 10 (heartbreak injury of VCU All-American opens door), and the Big East and Big 12 (a majority of teams in both have a top 100 player).
