K-State losing to Butler pretty much sunk the final nail into the semi-animated corpse of my brackets. I had way too much wrong but did take a flyer on KSU winning it all on one bracket. Actually, I think I have Duke winning one so that's technically still alive. But if you're going chalk in the finals you've got to be a lot more accurate than I was (I'm looking at you Georgetown, Villanova, Kansas...) in the earlier rounds. A good visual illustration of how most people's brackets are looking (and of the fact that you apparently don't have to have any skill at predicting games to get a job at ESPN) can be found here. Well, that won't be there once the tourney ends so I'll describe. It's a graphic of the final four picks of 12 ESPN experts. How expert were they?
Kansas: 12/12 (actual: TBD, Michigan State or Tennessee)
Syracuse: 7/12; Kansas State: 4/12; Pitt: 1/12 (actual: Butler)
Kentucky: 8/12; West Virginia 4/12 (actual: West Virginia)
Villanova: 5/12; Baylor: 4/12; Duke 3/12 (actual: TBD, Baylor or Duke)
They're paying good money for that? Two of them went straight chalk and no one picked anything lower than a #3 seed? Way to put it on the line with some gutsy predictions
If you're keeping score at home, that would be 0% of ESPN's experts correct in the Midwest and West bracket. 33.33% of the braintrust got it right in the East and 25% got the South right (the only #1 seed to advance -- once again proving that nothing unites like hatin' on Duke).