March Madness is here! It’s time to fill out brackets, bursting with hope, only to have them bust by the end of the first week of play.
Here at Swish Appeal, we’re sharing some of our brackets, along with takes that range from the measured to the mild to the hot.
We kick things off with Cat Ariail’s bracket breakdown:
Click here to see Cat’s bracket
The Tree falls in the first round?
Only once has a No. 1 seed lost a first-round game in the NCAA women’s basketball tournament, with Stanford falling to Harvard in 1998. Could the Cardinal repeat ignominious history, becoming the first No. 2 seed to lose a first-round game? (Last year, Stanford, a No. 1 seed, became only the eighth No. 1 or No. 2 seed to lose before the Sweet Sixteen.)
This prediction is not intended to pick on Stanford; rather, it’s about boosting Norfolk State. The regular season and tournament champions from the MEAC are led by a scoring star with high-major cred, senior guard Diamond Johnson. A Big Ten All-Freshman honoree in her first collegiate season at Rutgers who transferred to NC State where she won ACC Sixth Player of the Year in 2021-22 before earning…
 bracket predictions for the NCAA women’s basketball tournament. Here’s Cat Ariail’s bracket.){kind=link}