Obama's Bracket Flubs The Final Four

NEW YORK — With his men's bracket a bust, the president still has some hope in the women's NCAA tournament.

President Barack Obama has three of his Final Four teams remaining in the women's bracket, including Connecticut, which beat Iowa State 74-36 on Sunday for its 75th straight win. He also has Stanford and Nebraska left.

Obama didn't have either Florida State or Mississippi State in the other early game Sunday, having picked both to lose earlier in the tournament. The First Fan's bracket ranked 124,178th on ESPN.com's leaderboard, better than just 34.8 percent of users.

After his last two men's teams – Kentucky and Kansas State – were eliminated Saturday, Obama's men's bracket was at 2,111,104th, better than 55.8 percent of ESPN online ballots.

Comments

[evgolightly]

11:01 PM on 03/29/2010

He picked Ohio.

[silverlincoln]

05:21 PM on 03/29/2010

I have posted 3 comments to this article and none of them are on this site. Can you tell me why?

[lastep]

09:42 AM on 03/29/2010

I had 5 of the final 8 right but only one in the final four.

[kapalabhati]

09:57 AM on 03/29/2010

As only Charlie Brown could say, "I got a rock."

[itjustis]

06:32 AM on 03/29/2010

What did you expect. It's an Obama trend. Can't figure out how to revive economy, can't figure out final four. Expect more of the same for the next 3 years. We are definitely in deep s..t.

[rich3324]

01:28 AM on 03/29/2010

The gop did no better:

NO tre Dame
NO rth Carolina
NO rth Dakota State
NO rthern Iowa

[cheeriogirl]

03:21 AM on 03/29/2010

Rich, I'm your 46th fan. LOVE your wit! FANNED!

[ThorD]

09:52 AM on 03/29/2010

That is so NOt funny!!!! Eh, it was.

[TrueLiberty]

11:52 PM on 03/28/2010

How is this possible? I thought BO was the smartest human being ever to have lived? How could he have picked in such a mediocre way? Oh no,,, wonder what this means for the country. :0 :)

[lobos]

11:15 PM on 03/28/2010

Whew. Thanks - nice break from politics, war, and tatooed cheaters

[NinjaWolfHybrid]

01:29 AM on 03/29/2010

LOL, I know, right!

[AdV2k1]

10:05 PM on 03/28/2010

i wonder how many people really give a damn about college basketball final four and how many people just want to gloat they picked the right teams in the bracket.

[madHenry]

10:30 PM on 03/28/2010

Come to the midwest and ask your question.

[cheeriogirl]

03:21 AM on 03/29/2010

B ad bracket?

Want a hankie?

[rambot02]

08:05 PM on 03/28/2010

Aside from this bracket implosion, Prez O. has had a pretty good week.

[MSaxe]

07:40 PM on 03/28/2010

I guess that means that Obama has to quit and that Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and the GOP gets to take over...............................................................................................................NOT.

[kuhler]

07:12 PM on 03/28/2010

Every year, I pick Duke to win. This year, I decided not to fall into that trap again. Duke is now the only #1 seeded team left. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG~!!~

[cheeriogirl]

03:24 AM on 03/29/2010

FANNED for commiseration purposes. :-)

Me too.

I took Duke to the semis, but NOT the finals.

We deserve what comes to us kuhler.

WE LOST THE FAITH.

NEVER AGAIN! Go BLUE DEVILS!

[mphalen]

07:04 PM on 03/28/2010

"The president's bracket is a bust.'

I think you can probably say that about everyone's brackets. Go Michigan State!

[SeeDaddy]

07:03 PM on 03/28/2010

Has anyone else noticed the poor officiating in the Sweet and Elite 8 games. It has happened in several and affected the outcome a couple times.

[CaseyAKO]

01:24 AM on 03/29/2010

You mean the poor officiating in any game in which Duke is involved?

That phantom foul on Lance Thomas' put back dunk near the end of the game tonight. It was already pretty much decided, but c'mon. He gets an easy put back dunk and the foul is called for NOTHING. No contact. None.

[GayIthacan]

06:54 PM on 03/28/2010

Just like everybody else.........

Proving once again that my President is more like me than not. :D :D

[t iessa]

06:59 PM on 03/28/2010

Maybe that's our problem. We need someone in charge who is not so much like you.

[Feesister]

07:39 PM on 03/28/2010

Hey, that's not nice. Those are the kind of manners that get you into Tea Party.

[Winthorpe]

08:35 PM on 03/28/2010

He's done better than 75 percent of ESPN fans, who presumably have much more time to follow college basketball. I'm sorry if that's not good enough for you.

[cumchu]

06:25 PM on 03/28/2010

I haven't read all of the posts but it seems obvious to me that it was Barack's choice to become a White Sox fan (as opposed to that other team, uhhh the ... Cubs) that was the fundamental flaw in his basketball hoop bracket's strategy. Being a Cub fan requires a certain sensitivity to the ebbs and flows of all games. Aside from that, I can only offer the fact that he did not choose to make Gary, Indiana his home. But, as my friend Jonathon Winters said, "We learn by doing".