Diana Inch is a 44-year old high school librarian and girls soccer coach in Oregon. She is also the only person out of 3 million entrants in the Yahoo! Tourney Pick ‘Em to correctly predict the Final Four teams. She also correctly predicted Connecticut and Butler in the Championship game, and sure enough she had the Huskies winning the title. So how did this seemingly extraordinary sports genius make her predictions? By using her favorite numbers and picking dogs and cats, of course.
Inch’s formula included her favorite numbers and team mascots. She titled her entry Di’s 711 XV Cats & Dogs. In the first round she picked the No. 7 and 11 seeds in almost every round. In ensuing rounds she picked according to team mascots, leaning to those with cats or dogs.
“I have watched the games on my computer,” Inch said. “I’m as surprised as anyone that I got the Final Four.” (Via the Albany Democrat-Herald)
Why are you surprised, Diana? This is how it always happens. You should try fantasy football next year and draft your team based on which player has the cutest ass.
Unfortunately for Diana, though, her luck has brought her no instant wealth, and just some bragging rights. Even before UConn won the (incredibly boring) championship game last night, Diana was in 781st place in the Yahoo! competition, 13 wins behind the first place entrant, so she won’t see any of the $5,000 top prize. But with that cushy high school librarian/soccer coach salary, she hardly needs it.
sure that is not a prison library?
Diana is my cousin, and this is too awesome for her. I like her system of numbers and animals, and your recommendation for the football prediction method. Perhaps I’ll go with that. I won my only bracket entered (pro football) back with a similar method of mascots and cities, but think it’s a little easier with fewer teams. Way to go Diana!
This is fucking bullshit.
The only person to have the final four, championship game, and champ correct, yet still doesn’t win….
So picking 16 Boston University Terrier over 1 Kansas Jayhawk turned out to be a bad move?
Get outta here….
I have trouble filling out brackets without a jock tricking me into giving him five dollars to do it.
44, huh? That’s a HARRRD 44, I’m sure…
Knew a classmate who won the class tournament bracket and picked the winning teams by the color she liked best of the two teams in each game. (she picked 96% correctly)
and yet another example of why choosing teams based on factors having absolutely nothing to do with basketball is the way to go…next year I’m going with favorite team colors