President Biden and former President Barack Obama reveal their March
2:11 PM ET Tory BarronESPN Editor Close Tory Barron is a Bristol-based author and editor for ESPN.com. After retiring from playing lacrosse at UConn, the DC native decided to try her hand at discussing people playing sports.It would not be March without some governmental picks.U.S. President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama got in the college basketball spirit by completing their 2023 March Insanity brackets.Biden, a graduate of Delaware and Syracuse, doesn’t have a team in the hunt this season, but he still has a vested rooting interest thanks to the first lady, Dr. Jill Biden, who is a happy Villanova alum.Good luck to every group in this year’s NCAA tournament. I have actually got Arizona in the men’s tournament and Villanova in the females’s- and as you know, in this home, Villanova always wins. pic.twitter.com/iILzABTCuo!.?.!— President Biden(@POTUS)March 16, 2023 While POTUS crowned the Villanova Wildcats on the women’s
side, he went with some Wildcats hailing from the West Coast on the males’s side.The 2-seed Arizona Wildcats start their title mission versus 15-seed Princeton on Thursday.Obama sharing
his brackets comes as little surprise– it’s in
keeping with a custom the kept in mind college basketball fan began in 2009. Obama picking Duke to win everything in the males’s tournament? That is a bit more unexpected.Editor’s
Picks 1 Related Duke, a
No. 5 seed, is the lowest-ranked group Obama has ever chosen to win the title. His Blue Devils choice marks only the 3rd time he has forecasted a non-No. 1 seed would lower the nets in 14 tournaments.However, No. 44 does have
a practice of
riding with perennial powerhouses. In those 14 guys’s tournaments, Obama selected North Carolina 3 times, Kansas 3 times, Michigan State two times, Gonzaga twice, Kentucky when, Indiana once and now Duke twice.It’s the very best season! My #MarchMadness brackets will get busted soon enough, however here are my choices. Who do you have winning everything? pic.twitter.com/H3MdBkJCmY!.?.!— Barack Obama (@BarackObama )March 15, 2023 On the females’s side of things, Obama played it a little much safer. His champ of option? The reigning South Carolina Gamecocks.Men’s Tournament Difficulty
Complete your bracket by selecting the winner for each game of
the 2023 men’s NCAA tournament. Play Tournament Obstacle Obama’s vote of self-confidence in Dawn Staley & Co. remains in keeping with his trend of choosing the No. 1 total seed (8 out of 13 tournaments). While this is his 3rd time picking
the Gamecocks, his frustrating preferred for many years has actually been UConn, whom he has actually selected on eight occasions.Between the guys ‘s and women’s competitions, Obama has successfully anticipated champs 8 times given that 2009. If you’re a Duke or South Carolina fan, here’s expecting lucky No. 9( and 10).