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003 - A couple of bracket notes 031826

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🗓️ 18 March 2026

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A couple of bracket notes

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on the Big 1050 WTKA online at the big 1050.com.

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Interesting notes that I saw during some, doing some bracket research.

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Talking about how chalky the men's bracket was last year, all four number one seeds,

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et cetera, et cetera.

0:13.6

You want to talk about chalk, the women's bracket from last year and probably the expectation

0:18.0

for the majority of the women's bracket this year, super chalky.

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Last year, I was going back over last year's bracket.

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There were four first round upsets last year.

0:26.5

Two of them were nines over eights and the other two were tens over sevens.

0:30.3

There's no, that's barely an upset.

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And on the men's side, we would probably not even constitute those as upset that's at this stage.

0:37.4

But there were four lower-seeded teams that beat higher-seeded teams in the first round of the

0:42.2

women's tournament last year.

0:43.8

But again, two-nines over eights, two-tens over-sevents.

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And then when you look at, you know, advancing to the Sweet 16, there were three, five

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seeds that made it to the Sweet-16. None of those five that made it to the Sweet 16.

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None of those five seeds made it to the Elite 8.

0:57.6

The Elite 8 was entirely ones, twos, and there was, what, one three in there, and that was LSU.

1:04.1

And then when you go from there, the final four were three ones and a two.

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Now, Yukon was the two, and they ended up winning the championship, but kind of the point, when you look at lower-seated teams and upsets and chalk,

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et cetera, there were only two wins in the entire women's bracket last year that there

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was at least three differential in the Cs.

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