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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-28-06 08:40 AM
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ESPN-4 people got the brackets right (out of 3Million)
I saw this on the CNN crawler yesterday but I can't find an article on it.

How about this guy?

Nebraska man one of 4 to pick Final Four
Pleasant confused George Mason for George Washington, could win $10,000

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12043020/

The 46-year-old, who lives in Bellevue, Neb., said he had watched George Washington in a couple of games earlier this season and liked what he saw. The Colonials, not the Patriots, were going to be his long shot pick. Confusion reigned.

“I was filling in my bracket on the job and trying to do it pretty quick,” he said. “When I got done, I said, ‘Was that George Mason or George Washington?”’



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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-28-06 08:42 AM
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1. Here is the ESPN part
According to statistics provided by ESPN, 1,854 of the 3 million brackets had George Mason making the Final Four.

Of those, 284 picked the Patriots to win the national title. Most of those brackets were presumably filled out by alumni, people whose favorite colors are the Patriots’ green and yellow, or maybe American history buffs (George Mason was a key player in the establishment of the new nation, but refused to endorse the Constitution because, initially, it didn’t include a Bill of Rights).

Pleasant was not, however, one of those 284.

His predicted champion is Florida and, because of that, this is where his great little underdog story ends.

With a $10,000 grand prize at stake in the ESPN pool and with only a scant 10-point lead against the three others who forecast their Final Fours perfectly, Pleasant will be rooting — heavily — for the Florida Gators on Saturday night.

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northzax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-28-06 11:16 AM
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2. and in fourth place
is the Sports editor from Slate...http://www.slate.com/id/2138754/?nav=tap3

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