butler

Out of over 5.9 million brackets entered in EPSN.com's Tournament Challenge only two people picked the Final Four correctly, and only one of them, Joe Pearlman, is in serious contention to win the big final prize.  (See his bracket above and hear an interview with him here.)

I didn't watch the interview with Joe.  But I assume it went something like this:

ESPN: So how did you come to pick these four teams?
JOE: Well, I picked Kentucky because they are a perennial powerhouse, Connecticut because of their great run in the Big East tournament, and Butler because they made the Final Four last year.
ESPN: And what about VCU?
JOE: Oh, that was easy.  I just sold my soul to Satan.

Joe has VCU winning the whole thing.  Good luck, Joe.  At this point, it doesn't seem any more silly than every other pick you made.

Last night, Duke eked out a victory over mid-major sensation Butler (despite Butler having two different shots to win the game!)  Will the Casual Bracket be as tight?  We're about to find out in the first of our two Final Four match ups.

From now until midnight, you'll have the opportunity to decide who you want in the championship: Ugly Sweaters or Bowling Shirts.

Since we are only doing 12 hours of voting, you can come back to vote up to once an hour, so keep coming back!  Then check in tomorrow at noon when we'll show the results and open up voting for the second of our two semi-finals: Mesh Shirts vs. Fruit Costumes.

NCAA March Madness might be over, but we still have three more days of Casual Bracket.  Are you excited!?