George H.W. Bush’s March Madness bracket is full of, uh, choices
Picking Texas A&M as national champions isn’t even the craziest thing about the President’s March Madness bracket.
Back in 2009, then-President and noted basketball fan Barack Obama shared his March Madness bracket from the Oval Office. It caused quite a stir, not because he picked North Carolina to win (UNC did win), but because this is what counted as potentially un-presidential behavior in 2009. By the time he left office, Obama’s bracket reveal was a bonafide new tradition for college basketball fans.
This year, the year of our Lord 2018, two-time President George H.W. Bush also shared his bracket for the NCAA Tournament “respectfully disagreeing” with Obama. Bush, Sr. is all-in on the Aggies.
Behold 41’s bracket.
The headline here is, clearly, picking Texas A&M to win the national championship. Which is a little bananas just if you consider the odds as a No. 7 seed, but especially if you realize it requires a chronically underperforming team to beat North Carolina in the second round, Virginia in the Final Four and Villanova in the Championship game. But, you know, that could almost be forgiven. Some of us are blinded when it comes to making brackets involving colleges to which we are emotionally attached and/or on which there are whole schools named after us.
But really: Don’t sleep on just how truly questionable some of 41’s other picks are. Ohio State over Gonzaga? TCU over Michigan State? Nevada over Cincinnati? Clemson over Kansas? ARKANSAS OVER PURDUE? Then again, Buffalo beat Arizona on Day 1 so who is really to say what’s reasonable anymore.
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George Bush, Sr. is enjoying a slightly problematic moment of bipartisan affection, largely on account of being an endearing 93 years old and not looking so bad in light of recent elections. But his administration — and the wars they started both foreign and domestic that we’re still trying to end — was whack. And honestly, so is his 2018 NCAA Tournament bracket.
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