I know you came here for a bracket breakdown but we really need to begin with what exactly happened Monday afternoon with the bracket leak. As Kevin Draper at the New York Times points out, this exposes the mistakes that can happen when a media outlet intentionally delays the distribution of information so it can prepare topics and graphics for something that’s billed as a TV event you have to watch.
Moving up the show two hours after the leak was an interesting choice—made all the more interesting by keeping its original event scheduled for 7 p.