March Madness

The NCAA men's brackets were announced last evening, and our class will be using the tournament to refresh some of our basic math skills over the next few weeks.  Students filled out their brackets today, and we will use their predictions to work with fractions, decimals, mean, median, mode, range, percentages, graphing, and multi-step word problems, as well as reading, geography, and logic.  Although I anticipate refreshing our brackets once we hit the Sweet 16, I thought you might enjoy seeing which two teams the class thinks will make it to the final game along with the other teams in their Final Four!  (I'm not sure what the determining factor was with some-"that's where my family lives" was a phrase I heard more than once!) So, here's to your picks--best of luck! 

I don't recommend betting on any of these predictions!  I cannot be help accountable for any monies gambled on such expert(?) picks!!

1. UCONN beating Belmont  (Memphis, Texas)
2. Duke over Detroit  (Iona, Texas)
3. UNC-Ashville over BYU  (Lehigh, Lamar)
4. St. Louis beats NC State  (Notre Dame, Vanderbilt)
5. BYU over Kansas  (Duke, Ohio State)
6. Kentucky beats Texas  (New Mexico, Alabama)
7. Memphis over Texas  (Notre Dame, Belmont)
8. Kentucky beating Florida State  (Florida, Belmont)
9. Alabama beats Kentucky  (Memphis, Florida State)
10. Purdue over Baylor  (Michigan State, Florida State)
11. North Carolina over Kentucky  (Michigan State, Syracuse)
12. Kentucky beating Vanderbilt  (Davidson, North Carolina)
13. No winner picked--S. Dakota State v. Florida State  (BYU, Kansas)
14. Ohio State over Florida  (Kentucky, Georgia)
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16. St. Louis beats Texas  (VCU, Detroit)
17. Florida over North Carolina  (Duke, Vanderbilt)
18. Memphis beating Alabama  (Kentucky, Syracuse)
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20. Davidson over Ohio  (Kentucky, Syracuse)
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22. Alabama over VCU  (Virginia, Ohio State)
23. No winner picked--Kentucky v. Kansas  (Virginia, Montana)

Mrs. Taylor's Picks--Kentucky over Kansas 72-65  (Missouri. Ohio State).

My picks?  That wouldn't really be fair to share with all of my insider information and all.  But if you're curious how it all will turn out, here goes:

Kentucky takes it all beating Kansas by a final score of 78-72.  The other two teams in my Final Four are Missouri and the hometown Commodores!