Who will win it all?

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GEORGIA PROFESSORS SAY NORTH CAROLINA WILL WIN

Come April 6, Tar Heel fans should have reason to celebrate -- providing the math is right. LRMC (Logistic Regression Markov Chain), the computer ranking system designed by three professors at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has predicted that the NCAA Final Four basketball match ups for 2009 will be the University of North Carolina vs. the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Memphis vs. the University of Louisville. The championship battle, according to LRMC calculations, should pit North Carolina against Memphis with North Carolina emerging as the victor.

... LRMC has been proven to be an impressively accurate method to forecast tournament results. Last year, the LRMC method correctly identified all Final Four participants and heralded Kansas defeating Memphis in the eventual championship.

... The LRMC formula includes scoreboard results, which teams are competing, home court advantage and margin of victory in its computational formula. In addition to predicting a potential victor, these calculations can also offer insight into teams that hold more -- or less -- potential than NCAA seeding indicates. For example, the 2008 predictions included picking out overrated teams such as Duke, Vanderbilt and Connecticut, which all lost in the first round. The system also identified West Virginia and Kansas State as potential spoilers. Both teams completed upset victories during last year's tournament.

... Michigan State, Boston College Utah and are all poised for potential upsets during the tournament. Conversely, UCLA, Wisconsin, Arizona State and USC may prove to be spoilers.

If you wanted to know well it look like President Barack Obama has also picked North Carolina to win the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship. His bracket was posted on ESPN.com Wednesday and his final four picks are Pittsburgh, Louisville, North Carolina and Memphis.

Who do you think will win it all? Any Cinderella stories this year?

Click the link below for the official bracket. Good Luck!

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/tournament/bracket