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2011 NCAA Tournament Bracket Predictions By Experts: Charles Barkley, Jay Bilas Pick Kansas

Need help picking your 2011 NCAA Tournament bracket? Time's a-wastin', as the first March Madness game tips off shortly after today's 9-to-5 shift ends on the east coast. Here are the bracket predictions created by a panel of experts, with Sir Charles obviously leading the way because come on, obviously.

Good news for Kansas and Ohio State fans, as none of our selected experts picked anybody else, though you have to think Kenny Smith is a strong UNC lean.

Who do you like? Everybody all aboard Team Belmont Bruins yet? Most of these picks posts are brief videos, but Dobbertean's is all text, from first-round games all the way through the title game. Here we are:

Charles Barkley

Champion: Kansas Jayhawks

Final Four: Ohio St. Buckeyes, Pittsburgh Panthers, 10 iPad 2s

Gus Johnson

Champion: Ohio St. Buckeyes

Final Four: HARD TO SAY! COLD. BLOODED.

Jay Bilas

Champion: Kansas

Final Four: Syracuse Orange, Connecticut Huskies, Pitt

Chris Dobbertean

Champion: Ohio State

Final Four: Duke, Kansas, Florida Gators

Kenny Smith

Champion: Yeah, probably UNC.

Final Four: North Carolina Tar Heels, Ohio State, Duke, PENDING

Dick Vitale

Champion: Ohio State

Final Four: Duke, Pitt, Louisville Cardinals

Seth Davis

Champion: Kansas

Final Four: Ohio State, Duke, Florida

Jim Nantz

Champion: Ohio State

Final Four: North Carolina? Villanova? Notre Dame? Pittsburgh? Hey, that's a Final Four.

For more on the 2011 NCAA Tournament, stop by SB Nation's NCAA Basketball hub.

Photographs by coka_koehler used in background montage under Creative Commons. Thank you.