OK America it’s here.
It’s time for the Completely Random NCAA Men’s basketball tournament
predictions. I used a random number
generator. Absolutely no other analysis
went into this and the random tournament doesn’t care that Kentucky has a real
chance of going undefeated this year.
There were many highlights to the random tournament. Three of the four No 1 seeds bowed out in the
first round beaten by their No 16 opponents.
Since a one seed has never lost a first round match in NCAA history,
this is truly remarkable. The last one
seed standing was Kentucky, but they joined the ranks of the defeated in the
second round, going down to 9th seed Purdue 79 to 65 in a truly
shocking result. Of course, this isn’t
shocking at all because all the scores were randomly generated.
There were two stunning standouts. They were 16 seed Robert Morris and 15 seed
North Dakota State. Robert Morris made
its way to the Sweet 16 before being knocked out by Georgetown. But that pales to what North Dakota State
accomplished. They made it all the way
to the Final Four before succumbing to 5 seed Arkansas. They were tremendous in the random
tournament.
But in the end, only one team can cut down the nets and that
team was Notre Dame. They were quietly
efficient and methodical as they went through the random tournament. They played Arkansas in the National
Championship game and the Fighting Irish prevailed 87 – 77.
Of course, I could run this through my program many times,
but that takes away from the fun. So I
only run it through once. This year, the
national champions are Notre Dame and congratulations to them.
And with that, let the real March Madness begin!
