I'm only paying attention to the men's tournament for one reason (now that Stanford is gone). That reason is to see how badly Sports Illustrated messes up their overall predictions. I started doing this last year because I was irritated with SI's coverage of the two tournaments: pages and pages of men's coverage complete with brackets and fold out predictions and only a few pages of women's coverage with no bracket (At least no bracket this year. I don't remember last year).
SI does a four page fold out spread where they predict the winners of each game. Each time they make a wrong prediction I chortle evilly and scribble through that team. Sometimes the mistakes are meaningless because the team that wins doesn't advance and SI predicted another school moving on in the next round anyway. But on a few occasions the teams that are upset were expected to go deep into the tournament. Crossing out all those boxes is particularly enjoyable. Here's how SI is doing after the first two rounds (I hope they're not getting graded on a straight percentage):
Round 1 - 22/32 correct (D/D+)
Round 2 - 8/16 correct (F)
Round 3 - 3/8 teams still playing
Round 4 - 2/4 teams still playing
Round 5 - 2/2 teams still playing
So they could still be right about the championship match-up but they took a big hit with the losses of Syracuse, Oklahoma, Kansas, Georgia Tech, and Wake Forest.
