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Is Obama?s bracket love for the Badgers a post-election thank-you?

Just four months after Wisconsin voters gave President Obama 53 percent of the vote to give him 10 electoral votes in a crucial swing state and five months after he met the members of the Badgers men?s basketball team in a major campaign stop, the president picks the team to upset Gonzaga, the No. 1 seed in the west region of the NCAA tournament.