{"id":288,"date":"2013-03-19T10:06:37","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T16:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/67.227.157.91\/~kenpom\/wp_blog\/the-tournament-is-wide-open\/"},"modified":"2013-03-19T10:06:37","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T16:06:37","slug":"the-tournament-is-wide-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/the-tournament-is-wide-open\/","title":{"rendered":"The tournament is wide open"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve heard that a lot from all of the experts all season. Just three days ago, this column<\/a> promised us there was massive parity in the game, with quotes from the top coaches. Jim Boeheim says there would be ten different winners if we played the tourney ten times! <\/p>\n

So which wacky teams did the experts pick to win it all? Well, for starters, not a single person picked Duke (despite Goodman’s piece<\/a> proclaiming them the favorites two weeks ago). Just three of the 34 experts picked a non-one seed and in each case it was a two-seed. And 27 of the 34 picked Louisville. Here’s a complete rundown of picks posted at ESPN.com, CBSSports.com, USAToday.com, SI.com, and Yahoo.com.<\/p>\n

Alaa Abdelnaby: Louisville<\/strong>
\nGreg Anthony: Louisville<\/strong>
\nNicole Auerbach: Louisville<\/strong>
\nJay Bilas: Louisville<\/strong>
\nJeff Borzello: Louisville<\/strong>
\nMateen Cleaves: Louisville<\/strong>
\nSeth Davis: Louisville<\/strong>
\nDennis Dodd: Louisville<\/strong>
\nGregg Doyel: Ohio State
\nJeff Eisenberg: Louisville<\/strong>
\nBrad Evans: Louisville<\/strong>
\nPat Forde: Louisville<\/strong>
\nJohn Gasaway: Louisville<\/strong>
\nPete Gillen: Miami
\nScott Gleeson: Kansas
\nJeff Goodman: Louisville<\/strong>
\nDoug Gottlieb: Louisville<\/strong>
\nSeth Greenberg: Louisville<\/strong>
\nMike Lopresti: Louisville<\/strong>
\nJoe Lunardi: Louisville<\/strong>
\nStewart Mandel: Louisville<\/strong>
\nMatt Norlander: Louisville<\/strong>
\nJerry Palm: Louisville<\/strong>
\nGary Parrish: Louisville<\/strong>
\nDigger Phelps: Miami
\nEric Prisbell: Louisville<\/strong>
\nJon Rothstein: Louisville<\/strong>
\nWally Szczerbiak: Gonzaga
\nPete Thamel: Louisville<\/strong>
\nPeter Tiernan: Louisville<\/strong>
\nDick Vitale: Louisville<\/strong>
\nDan Wetzel: Indiana
\nJay Williams: Ohio State
\nLuke Winn: Louisville<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve heard that a lot from all of the experts all season. Just three days ago, this column promised us there was massive parity in the game, with quotes from the top coaches. Jim Boeheim says there would be ten different winners if we played the tourney ten times! So which wacky teams did the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}