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Obama's East Coast Bias

Written by

Jason Thornbury

Published on March 18, 2009

President Obama filled out an NCAA Tournament bracket for ESPN, and it looks like he's no fan of the Pac-10. He picks seven upsets in the entire tournament (not counting the 8-9 matchups) and four of them involve Pac-10 teams losing.

He only has three first-round upsets, all of which oust Pac-10 teams: No. 10 Maryland over No. 7 Cal, No. 11 VCU over No. 6 UCLA and No. 11 Temple over No. 6 Arizona State. His lone Pac-10 team to escape the first-round is No. 4 Washington, which then gets upset in the second round by No. 5 Purdue.

Then again, he picks No. 4 Gonzaga to beat his home-state No. 5 Illinois in the second round, so I guess it's not an East Coast bias, just an anti-Pac-10 bias. Wonder what his brother-in-law, Oregon State coach Craig Robinson, thinks about that.