Barack Obama picks Arizona and UConn as men's and women's champions in March Madness bracket
The former president's brackets are both pretty chalky.
Continuing his own March Madness tradition, former president Barack Obama unveiled his NCAA tournament brackets Wednesday. Obama, who has been doing this since his presidency in 2012 , has Arizona winning the men’s tourney and UConn coming out on top among the women. .
@BarackObama 's bracket is set. What do you think of his picks? Good luck to all of the athletes competing and the young men from @MBK_Alliance getting a peek into careers in sports.
pic. twitter. com/dOPyWEBuKB — The Obama Foundation (@ObamaFoundation) March 18, 2026 Both brackets are fairly chalky, as is often the case with Obama.
He has all four No. 1 seeds on the women’s side — UConn, UCLA, Texas and South Carolina — making it to the Final Four and beating the No. 2 seed in the Elite Eight in all but one region (he has No.