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Gothmog

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11. Since Donald Trump refused, Barack Obama filled out NCAA bracket
Wed Mar 15, 2017, 04:38 PM
Mar 2017

This makes me smile http://www.chron.com/sports/college/article/Donald-Trump-refused-Barack-Obama-NCAA-bracket-11004348.php

While Barack Obama was president, ESPN started a tradition with the president filling out an NCAA Tournament bracket each year.

After eight years of televising Obama's bracket, ESPN reached out to Donald Trump's staff to see if Trump would be interested in carrying on the tradition.

An ESPN spokesman provided this statement to the Washington Post: "We expressed our interest to the White House in continuing the presidential bracket. They have respectfully declined."

In the absence of a presidential bracket, Obama went ahead and filled out a bracket for the upcoming men's and women's tournaments, and they were published on obama.org.

In the men's bracket, Obama has North Carolina beating Duke in the championship game with Arizona and Kansas also making the Final Four.
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