Your Distinguished Alums NCAA Bracket

Who wins if you fill out the men’s bracket by accomplished alumni?

Millions of people will fill out their NCAA brackets this week. I have one myself. It’s free, you should enter:

Enter the Men’s NCAA Pool

Enter the Women’s NCAA Pool

Everyone has their own strategy as to how to fill out their pool — as a general rule, I’d recommend shorting the Big Ten — but today, I’d like to step away from considering “athletes” and “gameplans” as a strategy. Instead, considering these are institutions of higher learning, let’s fill out a men’s bracket entirely from alumni. Who are the top living, non-athletic alumni at each university or college? Let’s go through the bracket:

EAST REGION

Norfolk State alum J.B. Smoove

1. Baylor Bears. Willie Nelson, Chip Gaines, Jeff Dunham
2. Kentucky Wildcats. Mitch McConnell, Ashley Judd, Glenn Kotche
3. Purdue Boilermakers. Sully Sullenberger, Jim Gaffigan, Ted Allen
4. UCLA Bruins. Carol Burnett, Francis Ford Coppola, Anthony Kiedis
5. St. Mary’s Gaels. Mahershala…