March Madness tips off later today, and millions of people around the world are scrambling to fill out their brackets. What’s great about filling out a bracket is that everyone has their own unique way of making picks. Some people put hours of research into each matchup, while others simply choose the team with the coolest mascot.
Since there’s no wrong way to fill out a bracket, we thought it would be interesting to see how the bracket would look if we made our picks based on a unique set of rules that pertained to our industry – Criminal Law. Since a lot of our cases involve DUI charges, and because DWI statistics are relatively easy to obtain, we decided to fill out a bracket by picking the team that resides in the state with the higher number of DUIs per capita.
**Note** In the event the schools play in the same state, the school that was ranked higher on the 2010 Most Dangerous Colleges list advanced.
Fun Facts About the Bracket
- Although a #1 seed has never beaten a #16 seed in the actual tournament, Cal Poly knocked of Wichita State in this bracket.
- In a matchup of DUI per capita powerhouses, the University of Nebraska met Creighton (also located in Nebraska) in Round 2, but Creighton snuck by on account that they are ranked as the #286 most dangerous campus. The University of Nebraska came in at #340.
- Nebraska had 0.74 DUI arrests per capita, which is the fifth highest in the nation. If Creighton had faced any teams from Wyoming (1.26), Alaska (0.77), Idaho (0.75), or South Dakota (0.75), they would have lost, but no teams from those four states made the field of 64.
Related source: IBM.com
