A Pretty Poor Showing, For Both Of Us... But Duke Really Crushed His Bracket; And Marquette Dented Mine.

Just for the record -- now, for only the third time in 13 years -- I've come out ahead of the former President (out of about 6.9 million brackets posted on CBS Sports).

So. . . I'll claim it.

Winning ugly, is still. . . winning.

But the idea that not one number one seed would even make it to the Elite Eight round of games, is. . . unprecedented.

Truly, it was a year of the. . . improbable. [But I should also note that in the "land of the usual" -- he beat me easily in the women's brackets. Again.]

Hold all your nine-year olds close tonight -- in fact, hold all the lil' ones. . . close.

नमस्ते