This is a huge bump to a dead topic, but frankly it's pretty odd seeing no active discussion on the tournament.
Although I have little knowledge on the sport (I do brackets every year though, picked Louisville to win due to bias over Kentucky), but I want to share this really weird story I found online.
Apparently some guy and his friends decided to take all of the universities and their mascots to assign them Pokemon that would battle against each other, with the winners determined by match-up favorability. SOMEHOW, this absolutely odd decision has allowed them to make it to the top 1% in ESPN's bracket tournament.
Reason I'm sharing this is because I thought it was funny as shit and kinda cool
This was their whole process:
http://vgcritic.com/predicting-with-pokemon-ncaa-bracket-predictions/
They have videos of themselves on news stations talking about it here: