NCAA brackets: Factually accurate, but …

March 17th, 2009 at 10:32am Linda Grist Cunningham

The NCAA brackets we ran Monday were incorrect. The ones we ran today were accurate — which makes my blog post of earlier inaccurate because I said today’s brackets were wrong, but they’re not.

Confused? Yep. I promised to explain, so here goes: Today’s brackets contain all the right teams in the right order and if you play them out, the brackets get you to the Final Four and the championship just fine.

However, they don’t look like the brackets you’ve used pretty much every year since forever. We created a different format to make it easier to read and fit on the page. Yeah, our brackets accomplished both of those things, but we also confused the heck out of some readers.

As I told our folks: It’s like reaching for the cold water faucet. It’s always on the right, so even if I can get cold water out of the left hand faucet, it’s confusing.

Our hearts were in the right place; our heads not so much this time. If it’s not broken, we didn’t need to fix it. We’ll use the old, tried-and-true brackets tomorrow.

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