Writers Picks: Top Upsets & Surprise Teams
March 16th, 2008
by CHN
Need help filling in your bracket? CHN writers give their predictions below about who will be the big winners and losers of this year's bracket. See how these picks compare to CHN's Official Prediction.
Surprise = Team that will exceed expectations/seed
Failure = Team that will underperform seed
Upset = Projected 1st round upset special
| Writer | Brubaker | Carpentier | Fox | Johnson |
| Surprise | USC | USC | Davidson | WKU |
| Failure | Wisconsin | Duke | Drake | Tennessee |
| Upset | Siena | Siena | WKU | Siena |
| over Vandy | over Vandy | over Drake | over Vandy |
| Writer | Teitel | Tomassini | Wesler | White |
| Surprise | Pitt | Temple | Stanford | Kansas St |
| Failure | Xavier | Georgetown | Duke | Memphis |
| Upset | Kansas St | Oral Roberts | Villanova | WKU |
| over USC | over Pittsburgh | over Clemson | over Drake |
What can we make of these picks? USC is a favorite to advance to the Sweet Sixteen at the expense of Wisconsin (a belief shared by CHN's Official Prediction.) Western Kentucky and Siena are trendy upset picks.. while thoughts on Pitt are mixed.
See what these writers had to say about the Final Four.
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