Once again, it’s time for Raymond to come up with an absurd, arbitrary criterion for filling out his NCAA bracket. This year, we go to the well-known dispute arbiter Google Fight. The criterion is the number of Google hits for the quoted phrase "%s basketball", divided by the school’s seed. (I would have used Bing hits, except Bing’s numbers are highly erratic. Only 291 hits for "Arkansas-Pine Bluff basketball"? The results may be more meaningful, but I’m not looking for meaningful results; I’m looking for numbers I can plug into my bracket-o-matic.) Once the field has been narrowed to eight teams, the results are determined by a coin flip.
Update:
- Correct predictions are in green.
- Incorrect predictions are in red.
- (!) marks upsets correctly predicted.
- (*) marks upsets predicted but did not take place.
- (x) marks actual upsets not predicted.
Opening Round Game |
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Arkansas-Pine Bluff | (80,900) | Arkansas-Pine Bluff (80,900) |
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Winthrop | (29,200) | |||||
Midwest bracket |
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1 | Kansas | (94,200) | Kansas (94,200) |
Kansas (94,200) (x) |
Kansas (heads) |
Kansas |
16 | Lehigh | (1,400) | ||||
8 | UNLV | (43,875) | Northern Iowa (57,444) (!) |
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9 | Northern Iowa | (57,444) | ||||
5 | Michigan State | (15,120) | Michigan State (15,120) |
Maryland (27,750) (x) |
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12 | New Mexico State | (11,083) | ||||
4 | Maryland | (27,750) | Maryland (27,750) |
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13 | Houston | (6,784) | ||||
6 | Tennessee | (11,550) | San Diego State (17,272) (*) |
Georgetown (24,766) |
Ohio State (tails) |
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11 | San Diego State | (17,272) | ||||
3 | Georgetown | (24,766) | Georgetown (24,766) (x) |
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14 | Ohio | (2,057) | ||||
7 | Oklahoma State | (2,857) | Oklahoma State (2,857) (x) |
Ohio State (34,700) |
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10 | Georgia Tech | (2,750) | ||||
2 | Ohio State | (34,700) | Ohio State (34,700) |
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15 | UC Santa Barbara | (4,746) | ||||
West bracket |
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1 | Syracuse | (131,000) | Syracuse (131,000) |
Syracuse (131,000) |
Syracuse (tails) |
Pittsburgh |
16 | Vermont | (5,312) | ||||
8 | Gonzaga | (5,325) | Gonzaga (5,325) |
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9 | Florida State | (1,644) | ||||
5 | Butler | (26,000) | Butler (26,000) |
Vanderbilt (61,750) |
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12 | UTEP | (7,600) | ||||
4 | Vanderbilt | (61,750) | Vanderbilt (61,750) (x) |
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13 | Murray State | (6,761) | ||||
6 | Xavier | (26,500) | Xavier (26,500) |
Pittsburgh (54,666) (x) |
Pittsburgh (heads) |
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11 | Minnesota | (3,427) | ||||
3 | Pittsburgh | (54,666) | Pittsburgh (54,666) |
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14 | Oakland | (1,728) | ||||
7 | BYU | (6,785) | BYU (6,785) |
Kansas State (25,000) |
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10 | Florida | (5,850) | ||||
2 | Kansas State | (25,000) | Kansas State (25,000) |
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15 | North Texas | (7,066) | ||||
East bracket |
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1 | Kentucky | (285,000) | Kentucky (285,000) |
Kentucky (285,000) |
Kentucky (tails) |
New Mexico |
16 | East Tennessee State | (3,687) | ||||
8 | Texas | (24,250) | Texas (24,250) (x) |
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9 | Wake Forest | (3,022) | ||||
5 | Temple | (32,600) | Cornell (60,000) (!) |
Cornell (60,000) (!) |
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12 | Cornell | (60,000) | ||||
4 | Wisconsin | (8,325) | Wisconsin (8,325) |
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13 | Wofford | (2,192) | ||||
6 | Marquette | (15,283) | Marquette (15,283) (x) |
New Mexico (17,633) |
New Mexico (heads) |
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11 | Washington | (4,009) | ||||
3 | New Mexico | (17,633) | New Mexico (17,633) |
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14 | Montana | (1,778) | ||||
7 | Clemson | (4,885) | Clemson (4,885) (x) |
West Virginia (10,800) |
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10 | Missouri | (3,700) | ||||
2 | West Virginia | (10,800) | West Virginia (10,800) |
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15 | Morgan State | (5,686) | ||||
South bracket |
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1 | Duke | (363,000) | Duke (363,000) |
Duke (363,000) |
Duke (heads) |
Duke |
16 | Arkansas-Pine Bluff | (5,056) | ||||
8 | California | (2,487) | Louisville (17,444) (*) |
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9 | Louisville | (17,444) | ||||
5 | Texas A&M | (156,000) | Texas A&M (156,000) |
Texas A&M (156,000) (*) |
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12 | Utah State | (0,883) | ||||
4 | Purdue | (12,000) | Purdue (12,000) |
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13 | Siena | (0,900) | ||||
6 | Notre Dame | (14,450) | Old Dominion (14,454) (!) |
Old Dominion (14,454) (*) |
Villanova (tails) |
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11 | Old Dominion | (14,454) | ||||
3 | Baylor | (11,100) | Baylor (11,100) |
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14 | Sam Houston State | (4,671) | ||||
7 | Richmond | (5,714) | Saint Mary’s (9,900) (!) |
Villanova (18,000) (x) |
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10 | Saint Mary’s | (9,900) | ||||
2 | Villanova | (18,000) | Villanova (18,000) |
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15 | Robert Morris | (13,000) | ||||
Finals |
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Kansas | (tails) | Pittsburgh (heads) |
Pittsburgh | |||
Pittsburgh | (heads) | |||||
New Mexico | (heads) | New Mexico (tails) |
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Duke | (tails) | |||||
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