President Barack Obama on Wednesday picked Indiana University to win the NCAA annual men’s college basketball tournament, joining in the “March Madness” office pool craze that sweeps America every spring.
The president, an avid sports fan, forecast that Indiana would defeat the widely favored University of Louisville in the championship game.
“I think this is Indiana’s year,” he said in an interview on ESPN, the sports cable network.
Obama, who began a three day trip to the Middle East on Wednesday, taped the interview on Tuesday.
— Reported by Mark Felsenthal of Reuters
