Did your NCAA picks survive first weekend? Crowquill

Ted Crow

CLEVELAND, Ohio — You’ve filled out your brackets after listening to the experts discuss which No. 12 seed will upset which No. 5 seed. Now it’s time to see how well your bracket holds up.

The SEC set a record for most teams in the tournament with 14, including No. 1 seeds Auburn and Florida and No. 2 seeds Tennessee and Alabama. Did your picks reflect the SEC’s dominance?

Did you take consider injuries such as No. 1 seed Duke’s super freshman, Cooper Flagg, playing on a sore ankle?

How about taking considering a team’s proximity to where they play, such as Michigan State’s first round game against Bryant in Cleveland?

After weighing the variables, I picked Auburn, Duke, Houston and St. Johns to make the Final Four with Duke beating Auburn to win it all.

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Crowquill, by artist Ted Crow, appears Wednesdays and Sundays in The Plain Dealer and on cleveland.com.

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