Her father's daughter

Heh. I just filled out Loyette's bracket using the modified coin flip method described earlier, and I kid you not -- I swear I didn't rig this -- she's got USC going to the Elite Eight and Notre Dame going to the Final Four. :) That's as far as they possibly could possibly gave gone, given her pre-determined national champion pick of Kansas.

Her other Final Four teams: Kansas, of course; Pitt; and BYU. Her only truly absurd first-round upset pick: UT-Arlington over Memphis. Yeah, that one came up tails three times in a row. Oops.

Now to do the cat and dog brackets...

UPDATE: Robbie predicts an all-Bulldog Final Four of Butler, Gonzaga, Mississippi State and Georgia, with Butler winning it all. Toby, Sasha and Butter, who are collaborating on a single "cat bracket" this year, have two sets of Tigers (Clemson and Memphis), a set of Cougars (Washington State) and a set of Wildcats (Arizona) in this Final Four, with Memphis cutting down the nets.

UPDATE 2: As for my bracket... here it is. I think I'm done messing with it now. :) It's relatively non-ridiculous, by my standards. I have one #12, one #13 and one #14 pulling first-round upsets; one double-digit seed in the Sweet Sixteen (#13 Oral Roberts); #6 USC and #7 Butler in the Elite Eight; and a Final Four featuring two #1s, a #2 and a #4. Hey -- I said relatively. :) It's still pretty wacky, I admit, but I've definitely done wackier.

Incidentally, in regard to those questions about Drake and Xavier, I ultimately answered them in the negative, simply because I don't know enough about those teams to take such huge leaps of faith in them. So I picked UConn to make a surprise run to the Final Four instead, beating both the Bulldogs and the Musketeers along the way. That'll get me back to my Connecticut roots, cheering whole-heartedly for the Huskies! (Now watch them lose to San Diego...)

I'm sticking with Fullerton, though. Oh, and I decided to pick Gonzaga over Davidson (and Georgetown). I know, I know. I can't help myself. GO ZAGS!!!

UPDATE, 11:15 AM SUNDAY: Let the record show that Robbie made a couple of last-minute changes to his picks this morning. He now predicts that the UConn Huskies will beat the Georgia Bulldogs in the West Regional Final, and he is also picking the Huskies to beat the Mississippi State Bulldogs in the Final Four before losing to the Butler Bulldogs in the title game. Apparently Robbie is upset with Georgia for trying to invade his home state, and he likes Connecticut because I'm from there. So the all-Bulldog Final Four is kaput.

In addition, he decided to pick the Georgetown Hoyas, whose mascot is a Bulldog, over the Gonzaga Bulldogs, who generally call themselves the "Zags," in the second round. Thus, he has substituted the Hoyas for the Zags/Bulldogs on his bracket all the way to the Final Four. So his new Final Four is Butler, Georgetown, Mississippi State and UConn.

Comments

[Fresh Girl]

I always knew cats were smarter than dogs. ;)

[JD]

Kansas?

Isn't it a bit too early to let her experience the pain of Rock Choke Jayhawk?

[Kristin]

Don't worry about it, I picked Gonzaga winning it all! What can I say...I don't really care if I win the bracket, and saw it as my own personal fantasy...:)

[Brendan Loy]

Heh. Been there, done that. :)