With Watson winning Jeopardy, Paul the Octopus predicting the World Cup, and last year’s Yahoo! Sports Tourney Pick’em contest being won by a guinea pig, this year we decided to try our own unique strategy.
Yahoo! Sports, the No. 1 online sports site, put Yahoo! Search Data to the test and let the top searched NCAA teams determine our March Madness bracket.
Yahoo! Search sifts through billions of searches to uncover trends, burning questions, popular personalities, and hopefully the winning college basketball team. We asked to the team to rank which college teams’ garner the most buzz online and picked that team to win their respected games.
Here are the top searched college teams according to Yahoo!
- Ohio State Basketball
- Duke Basketball
- BYU Basketball
- Syracuse Basketball
- Michigan State Basketball
- UConn Basketball
- Kentucky Basketball
- Notre Dame Basketball
- San Diego State Basketball
- UCLA Basketball
- Gonzaga Basketball
- Purdue Basketball
- Michigan Basketball
- UNLV Basketball
- Penn State Basketball
- Marquette Basketball
Yahoo! continues to work hard to keep our users connected to relevant content, and this year the Tourney Pick’em can be experienced on mobile devices including iPhones, plus there is an iPad companion app. Users can now create a bracket and change their picks right from their mobile device!
Because everyone likes to brag when it comes to their bracket we’ve added more social features this year to make it easy to keep up with the latest results, deadlines and reminders. Make sure you and your friends click the Facebook “Like” button for Yahoo! Sports and check out the Check-in feature that let’s you show off your school pride.
To sweeten the pot, this year’s Tourney Pick’em 11 offers fans the chance to win one million dollars in exchange for a perfect bracket. What if there is no perfect bracket? Then the best bracket in the K-Swiss/Bank of America-sponsored Yahoo! Sports Tourney Pick’em contest wins $10,000, which as we noted earlier was won last year by a guinea pig.
Check back to see how our Yahoo! Search bracket turns out & good luck!
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