Obama Bracket 2012: President Picks Kentucky, UNC, Ohio State, Missouri To Reach Final Four

BRISTOL, Conn. -- President Barack Obama is picking Kentucky, Ohio State, Missouri and North Carolina to reach the Final Four.

Obama filled out an NCAA tournament bracket for ESPN for the fourth straight year. On the women's side, he selected Baylor, St. John's, Connecticut and Notre Dame to advance.

A noted basketball fan, Obama is taking British Prime Minister David Cameron to the men's tournament's first game Tuesday night in Dayton, Ohio.

ESPN will reveal his full men's bracket Wednesday morning.

Kentucky and North Carolina are No. 1 seeds, while Missouri and Ohio State are seeded second in their regions. Baylor, UConn and Notre Dame are top seeds, with St. John's a No. 3 seed.

Comments

[George Picard]

08:41 PM on 03/14/2012

Well at least he didnt pick all 4 number one seeds.

[CatfishJohn]

10:31 AM on 03/14/2012

Obama agrees with me on all 4 picks. Now, if only his tepid Moderate politics agreed with my FDR Liberalism...

[pyrobryan]

10:03 AM on 03/14/2012

Well, I came up with the same final 4 as POTUS. I guess I'll head over to ESPN and see how the rest of our brackets compare.

[George Picard]

06:51 AM on 03/14/2012

Wow he picks one upset. He has the most boring picks in history. Well at least he didnt take all the number 1 seeds to make the final four this year.

[sportspicker3234]

01:52 AM on 03/14/2012

Barack Obama accidentally released ALL of his picks except for the championship early on ESPN. If you DVR'd the "teaser," you can see all the picks. It won't be "officially released" until Wednesday morning. http://beyondthebets.com/2012/03/14/barack-obama-unintentionally-releases-2012-ncaa-tournament-bracket-selections/

[callitlikeitis]

10:47 PM on 03/13/2012

The President was in Dayton this evening. The people here seem to really enjoy the visit and it was nice to see the President get a break and hang out with normal people enjoying a game he is passionate about. To have the President & the Prime Minister at the game together was a nice thing to see. For a minute they got to be as close to "normal" as they could be. I guess tomorrow it's back to the grind....

[time2talk]

04:38 AM on 03/14/2012

It was great!!!! Only I thought that was his press secretary he was with. Oops! Bet the PM had a good time too.

[P1James]

09:26 PM on 03/13/2012

the media never cared about covering a president's final four picks until Obama. kinda like how BET never aired presidential elections or an inauguration before.

[Flowers68]

10:32 PM on 03/13/2012

Perhaps no President before him expressed such interest in the sport. Most of them are on the golf course. Sometimes it's not them...it's just you.

[jamaicagirl]

10:38 PM on 03/13/2012

Thank you for that.

[IsotelusMaximus]

12:54 AM on 03/14/2012

It's not like he would turn down a round of golf...

[Robert Lovelace]

12:54 AM on 03/14/2012

The media cared about Nixon's love of football, about Teddy Roosevelt's love of hunting, about Eisenhower's love of golf (not to mention Ford), about Carter's love of fishing...

The man is a hoops fan so they ask him about hoops. I'm sure that somehow, you see him filling out a bracket as more proof he is a foreign-born, muslim, socialist, fascist, communist that hates America. Santorum probably filled in every slot in his bracket with "Jesus". Mitt just wants to break up the bracket, fire all the coaches, and sell off all the teams. And Newt fills his out based on which mascot is tastier.

[revlindajo]

01:22 AM on 03/14/2012

Now that's funny...

[time2talk]

04:42 AM on 03/14/2012

F&F!

[calm-down-bro]

08:45 PM on 03/13/2012

Mr. Romney is picking Cambridge, Yale, Bain Capital, and one of his friend's NASCAR teams to make the final four.