March Madness Predictions By Top Experts

Gonzaga Bulldogs forward Corey Kispert in 2021
Gonzaga Bulldogs forward Corey Kispert in 2021. Photo by Thurman James/CSM/Shutterstock (11713586bh)

March Madness is happening, and that means it’s time for everyone to send in their wild predictions over who’s going to win it all this year. In this article, we’re going to analyze the predictions given by a handful of basketball experts at Yahoo Sports. Interestingly enough, there was an overwhelming consensus regarding who most of them felt would win it all: Gonzaga.

Krysten Peek predicted that Gonzaga would win the championship over Arkansas, and Pete Thamel had the same opinion. Dan Wetzel concurred that Gonzaga would be victorious, but disagreed about who’d they be beating. Unlike Peek and Thamel, he predicted that Gonzaga would beat West Virginia.

Then there was an overwhelmingly large agreement over one particular matchup. Gonzaga vs. Illinois. Yahoo experts Henry Bushnell, Frank Schwab, Jason Owens, and Nick Bromberg all believed that Gonzaga would ultimately square off against the Fighting Illini, but out of those four, only one believed that Illinois would win.

Bushnell, Owens, and Bromberg all predicted that Gonzaga would beat Illinois, but Schwab was willing to roll the dice and disagree. By predicting that Illinois would beat Gonzaga, he was actually the only expert out of them all who picked a winner that wasn’t Gonzaga.

We understand that Gonzaga is a powerhouse, but March Madness is known for upset stories. Only time will tell how these predictions will hold over.