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NCAA Tournament 2011 Predictions By Experts: Seth Davis, Jay Bilas, Dick Vitale, And More

Real Clear Sports has put together a table of Final Four picks, complete with links to 2011 NCAA Tournament bracket predictions, by college basketball experts from Yahoo! Sports, ESPN, Sports Illustrated, CBS Sports, and so forth. It's worth a look as you fill out your own bracket, even if you will need to humor Gregg Doyel for including Temple, goodness knows why.

I would like to side with Andy Staples, considering his excellent college football and barbecue work, but Wisconsin? I think I could see Temple making it before Wisconsin.

Ohio State is the clear favorite here, as they are according to the computers. Many of these were likely completed before the news of Kyrie Irving's apparently imminent return, which may excuse the fact that Duke wound up receiving the fewest Final Four selections of any No. 1 seed. 

The Florida Gators, thought by humans and algorithms alike to be the weakest No. 2 seed, somehow made it into more Final Fours than any other second-seeded team, while North Carolina was the only No. 2 seed not to make it. That that as a comment on how weak the Southeast is, and how strong the East. 

For more 2011 NCAA Tournament predictions and projections, visit SB Nation's NCAA Basketball hub.

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