Current:Home > ContactPresident Biden releases his brackets for 2024 NCAA March Madness tournaments -RiseUp Capital Academy
President Biden releases his brackets for 2024 NCAA March Madness tournaments
View
Date:2025-04-25 20:52:17
President Biden has entered the March Madness conversation.
In a social media post on Wednesday, the president revealed his bracket for the 2024 NCAA competition, favoring UConn, Houston, North Carolina and Tennessee as his final four in the men's tournament. Biden also has UConn winning for the second straight year, this time against Houston.
For the final four of the women's tournament, Mr. Biden predicts South Carolina, UCLA, Stanford and UConn will battle it out, with South Carolina winning in the end against UCLA.
The president wished all the teams good luck in his post.
View this post on InstagramA post shared by President Joe Biden (@potus)
Former President Barack Obama was the first president to release a bracket each year, and Mr. Biden has continued the tradition since he took office. In Obama's picks this year, which he released Tuesday, he agreed with his former vice president that UConn would take home the tournament.
President Biden's picks for the men's tournament aren't particularly surprising, with three No. 1 seeds in his final four, but he did include a few upsets in the first round, with No. 13 Charleston beating No.4 Alabama, No.11 New Mexico defeating No. 6 Clemson, No. 12 McNeese winning against No. 5 Gonzaga and No. 11 NC State beating No. 6 Texas Tech.
Obama also thinks New Mexico will beat Clemson and NC State will beat Texas Tech in the first round, but he has some different opinions on the other upsets Mr. Biden predicted.
For the women's tournament, Mr. Biden noted one major upset in the first round, with No. 12 FGCU defeating No. 5 Oklahoma, and another in the second round with FGCU beating No. 4 Indiana — two upsets Obama didn't include in his bracket.
Unfortunately for President Biden, he's 0-2 when it comes to his March Madness brackets. In 2023, the president incorrectly predicted Arizona would take home the men's tournament and Villanova would win the women's. And in 2022, he wrongly guessed that Delaware would win both tournaments.
- In:
- March Madness
- College Basketball
- NCAA Tournament
- Joe Biden
- Basketball
- Barack Obama
Simrin Singh is a social media producer and trending content writer for CBS News.
veryGood! (16468)
Related
- IRS recovers $4.7 billion in back taxes and braces for cuts with Trump and GOP in power
- Third-party candidate leaves Mexico’s 2024 presidential race. Next leader now likely to be a woman
- Man dies in landslide at Minnesota state park
- Who voted to expel George Santos? Here's the count on the House expulsion resolution
- B.A. Parker is learning the banjo
- Teen girls are being victimized by deepfake nudes. One family is pushing for more protections
- Italian officials secure 12th Century leaning tower in Bologna to prevent collapse
- Israel, Hamas reach deal to extend Gaza cease-fire for seventh day despite violence in Jerusalem, West Bank
- At site of suspected mass killings, Syrians recall horrors, hope for answers
- Iran says an Israeli strike in Syria killed 2 Revolutionary Guard members while on advisory mission
Ranking
- See you latte: Starbucks plans to cut 30% of its menu
- How a quadruple amputee overcame countless rejections to make his pilot dreams take off
- Kyiv says Russian forces shot surrendering Ukrainian soldiers. If confirmed, it would be a war crime
- Colombian navy finds shipwrecked boat with over 750 kilos of drugs floating nearby
- This was the average Social Security benefit in 2004, and here's what it is now
- Gun factory in upstate New York with roots in 19th century set to close
- 7 suspected illegal miners dead, more than 20 others missing in landslide in Zambia
- Watch heartwarming Christmas commercials, from Coca Cola’s hilltop song to Chevy’s dementia story
Recommendation
Google unveils a quantum chip. Could it help unlock the universe's deepest secrets?
Inside the fight against methane gas amid milestone pledges at COP28
Beyoncé’s ‘Renaissance’ is No. 1 at the box office with $21 million debut
Strong earthquake that sparked a tsunami warning leaves 1 dead amid widespread panic in Philippines
Trump's 'stop
Ex-president barred from leaving Ukraine amid alleged plan to meet with Hungary’s Viktor Orban
US Navy says it will cost $1.5M to salvage jet plane that crashed on Hawaii coral reef
College football bowl game schedule for the 2023-24 season: A full guide for fans.