Christine and I filled out separate NCAA tournament brackets earlier this week for a little friendly spouse/spouse competition. I studied the matchups, checked injury reports, and looked at who was "hot" and who was playing poorly. I even did a mock bracket on espn.com that showed a computer simulation of each first round game, gave historical records for similar seeds, and gave strengths and weaknesses for each team. I filled out my bracket with confidence. Christine on the other hand, chose teams "because I like their name" to use her own words. For example, when we were picking the Xavier/Minnesota game she said, "Xavier is fun to say, I'm picking them"; or the Temple/Cornell game when she said, "Cornell? haha! that's sounds funny. I like them."
Out of the 32 first round games Christine correctly picked 25 of them. I however, only got 21 right.
Maybe next year I should pick based on jersey color.
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This is hilarious. I made Todd read it. I do the EXACT same thing that Christine does- and I mean EXACTLY. Todd may not go to the extreme of simulated games on espn... haha... but he does take into careful consideration everything involving the players and teams to make educated picks. I didn't do a bracket this year, but every year I have, I've beat Todd!
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