Another year, another bracket, and some Obama love

Today begins the best sporting event of the year. I'll likely post bracket updates as we go.

If you want to know who I picked, you can pretty much look at President Barack Obama's bracket. The president and I are very much on the same page here.

We have the exact same Final Four, championship game, and champion. We have 7/8 Elite Eight picks that are the same. The biggest difference is the opening round, where he predicted a few too many 12- and 13-seed upsets in my opinion.

Round-by-round, here are our comparisons with the differing picks in parentheses:

27/32 (UNLV/UNI, Vandy/Murry St, Temple/Cornell, Texas A&M/Utah St., Purdue/Siena)
13/16 (Xavier/Pitt, Notre Dame/Baylor, Purdue/Utah St./Texas A&M)
7/8 (West Virginia/Marquette)
4/4
2/2
1/1

So that's it for now. Here's to enjoying the best sporting event of the year! And may everyone's brackets this year be better than they were last year...