NCAA Tournament Final Four: Writers' Predictions

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Need help picking the Final Four? CHN writers give their National Champion & Final predictions and we try and come up with some semblance of a consensus.

 

Note how the #1 seeds dominate our predictions. Perhaps our memories are overly dominated by last year year's Final Four, or maybe the top teams really are just that good. See how these picks compare to CHN's Official Prediction.

 

Writer	Jeff Borzello	Jason Brubaker	Dan Daitchman	Jeff Fox
Champ	Pittsburgh	UNC	Pittsburgh	UNC
Final 4	UCONN	Louisville	Wake Forest	Louisville
Final 4	UNC	Memphis	UCONN	UCONN
Final 4	Louisville	Pittsburgh	UNC	Pittsburgh

 

Writer	Raphielle Johnson	Kevin McNeill	Shawn Siegel	Joel Welser
Champ	Pittsburgh	Louisville	UNC	Pittsburgh
Final 4	Louisville	UNC	UCONN	Louisville
Final 4	Memphis	Villanova	Michigan St	Missouri
	Oklahoma	Memphis	Pittsburgh	Oklahoma

 

Writer	Joey Whelan
Champ	UNC
Final 4	Louisville
Final 4	Florida St
Final 4	Memphis

 

Writer Consensus

Champion: Pittsburgh (5 of 9)

Runner Up: UNC

 

Final Four

East: Pittsburgh (7 of 9)

Midwest: Louisville (7 of 9)

West: UCONN/Memphis (4 of 9 each)

South: UNC (7 of 9)

 

The only real "surprise" picks are Wake Forest & Florida State in the Final Four by two of our writers. Interesting that the ACC is given a lot of respect.. except for Duke, which doesn't even make anybody's list. Perhaps that will come back to haunt us?..