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America's National Title Pick: North Carolina

Mar 20, 2008 – 3:27 PM
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Michael David Smith

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The American people have spoken, and they agree with Barack Obama.

At least, they do when it comes to their March Madness picks. Obama has picked North Carolina to win the national championship, and the composite national bracket at ESPN.com shows that North Carolina is the most common pick of the more than 3.65 million people who filled out an ESPN bracket.

North Carolina was also the most popular choice to win its first-round game, with 99.6 percent of ESPN.com entrants picking the Tar Heels, and 0.4 percent picking Mississippi Valley State Mount St. Mary's. The other four No. 1 seeds were just behind, with UCLA picked to win its first round game on 99.5 percent of brackets, Memphis on 99.4 percent and Kansas on 99.2 percent.

In a possible sign of Duke hatred, the Blue Devils were seen by the fans of America as the most likely of the Top 8 teams to lose their first-round game. Still, only 1.3 percent of fans picked Belmont to upset Duke.

The most evenly divided first-round game? UNLV vs. Kent State, with each team picked by 50.0 percent of the public. Oddly, at least through the first half, that has been the most lopsided game of the day so far.
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