It’s that time of year when everyone gets to be an expert in whether a 12-seed can beat a 5-seed, in order to win the gift of bragging rights for your office pool. With as little actual sports talk as possible, we look at where the Badgers and Marquette find themselves in the national men’s college basketball tourney. And we’ll speculate on other brackets we could create to kill time between games.

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