Updated Breakdown on Bracket Picks in Pool

All across America, people are screaming in euphoria, screaming even louder in vain, and glued to their TV/computer screen as their March Madness dreams are made and broken.  Along with Mike Lucas, a former contributor of mine who has moved on to his own highly successful sports blog, I've organised and entered a pool on espn.com with a total of 39 people.  Being a numbers guy, I looked into the breakdown of people's brackets to figure out who the popular picks were, as well as making it easy to track whose brackets are being busted.  To me, a bracket is busted if one of your Elite 8 picks is knocked out in the first round, as everyone will have one or two Sweet 16 teams get knocked out, but the Elite 8's are important to have make it through. An Elite 8 knocked out in the first round is the equivalent of 3 missed picks.  Likewise, you want all your Final 4 picks to make it past the second round (minimum).  After taking down the results, here's a look at how many bracketeers of the 39 picked each team to advance to the Elite 8 and beyond.  I'm going to continue to edit this throughout this opening weekend to highlight in red the missed picks.  For a look at my complete bracket breakdown, click here.

Elite 8

Louisville- 35

Ohio St. - 32

Miami- 29

Indiana- 28

Michigan St. - 23

Gonzaga- 18

Kansas- 18

Georgetown- 18

Florida- 17

Duke- 14

Michigan- 14

Wisconsin- 14

Syracuse- 10

VCU- 6

Butler- 6

New Mexico- 4

Kansas St. – 4

St. Louis- 4

Marquette- 3

UCLA- 3

Memphis- 2

Arizona- 2

UNLV- 1

NC St. – 1

Pittsburgh – 1

Wichita St. - 1

Villanova- 1

Iowa St. – 1

Ole Miss- 1

NW St. – 1

Final 4

Ohio St. - 21

Louisville- 20

Indiana- 17

Miami- 14

Michigan St. – 12

Kansas- 10

Georgetown- 10

Florida- 10

Gonzaga- 9

Duke- 6

Michigan-5

Syracuse- 5

Wisconsin- 5

VCU- 3

Butler- 2

New Mexico- 1

Kansas St. - 1

St. Louis- 1

Arizona- 1

UCLA- 1

NC St. - 1

Pittsburgh- 1

Final

Louisville- 14

Indiana- 12

Miami- 9

Ohio St. – 6

Michigan St. - 6

Gonzaga- 5

Kansas- 5

Duke- 5

Florida- 5

Georgetown- 3

Syracuse- 2

VCU- 2

Michigan- 1

St. Louis- 1

Pittsburgh- 1

Champion

Indiana- 8

Louisville- 6

Miami- 5

Kansas- 4

Ohio St. - 3

Duke- 2

Florida- 2

Michigan St. - 2

Syracuse- 2

VCU- 2

Gonzaga- 1

Georgetown- 1

Pittsburgh- 1