NCAA Bracket 2016: Updates on President Obama, Jay Bilas and Experts' Brackets

Don't feel bad if your NCAA bracket is already busted, ripped to shreds and thrown in the trash can. The rest of the world can sympathize, including many of college basketball's brightest minds.

March Madness has fully lived up to its name through two rounds of play. The NCAA reported that the 10 upsets recorded by double-digit seeds in the first round was the most in history, and that included some huge ones like No. 15 Middle Tennessee over No. 2 Michigan State and No. 14 Stephen F. Austin over No. 3 West Virginia.

After taking a look at where the matchups stand heading into Sweet 16 action, let's check in with the brackets of United States President Barack Obama and four college basketball experts: ESPN's Jay Bilas (subscription required), CBS Sports' Jerry Palm and Sports Illustrated's Seth Davis and Pete Thamel.

Person	First-Round Winners Picked	Second-Round Winners Picked
Barack Obama	23-of-32	10-of-16
Jay Bilas	22-of-32	9-of-16
Jerry Palm	18-of-32	6-of-16
Seth Davis	20-of-32	8-of-16
Pete Thamel	25-of-32	13-of-16

President Barack Obama

First-Round Winners Picked: 23/32 (7/8 South, 5/8 West, 6/8 East, 5/8 Midwest)

Second-Round Winners Picked: 10/16 (4/4 South, 4/4 West, 1/4 East, 1/4 Midwest)

President Obama is off to a great start on his bracket, at least compared to where most of the world is. He did especially well on his first-round upset bids, correctly picking the winner in six of the eight games where he tabbed the lower seed to move on.

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Now, only one of those upset picks came in a matchup that had more than a three-seed spread, but that's still impressive. The one big shocker he saw coming was No. 13 Hawaii over No. 4 California, a pick that may or may not have been affected by his childhood ties to the island state.

Obama is looking great in the South and West regions moving forward, but not in the East and Midwest. Although he only picked one correct Sweet 16 representative in the East and Midwest regions, he's in decent shape with the respective top seeds (North Carolina and Virginia) still alive in his bracket.

ESPN's Jay Bilas

First-Round Winners Picked: 22/32 (5/8 South, 6/8 West, 6/8 East, 5/8 Midwest)

Second-Round Winners Picked: 9/16 (4/4 South, 3/4 West, 1/4 East, 1/4 Midwest)

While Obama has Bilas edged by two games after two rounds, ESPN's premier college basketball analyst has still done pretty well. Coincidentally, Obama and Bilas predicted the exact same Final Four results (Kansas over Texas A&M, North Carolina over Michigan State and Kansas over North Carolina for the championship), so they should remain in close contention throughout.

Bilas was pretty conservative with his picks this season, only predicting five first-round upsets and none with more than a five-seed gap. However, four of those selections were correct, with only No. 11 Michigan's loss to No. 6 Notre Dame proving him wrong.

CBS Sports' Jerry Palm

First-Round Winners Picked: 18/32 (4/8 South, 5/8 West, 5/8 East, 4/8 Midwest)

Second-Round Winners Picked: 6/16 (2/4 South, 2/4 West, 1/4 East, 1/4 Midwest)

Yuck, yuck, yuck. Palm would've done better in the first round (19-of-32) if he had just blindly picked the higher seed in every matchup. He would've done a lot better (10-of-16) if he had done the same in the second round.

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Palm seemed to get a bit too cute with his picks in both rounds, with several curious choices including the following: No. 13 Chattanooga over No. 4 Indiana, No. 13 Iona over No. 4 Iowa State and No. 6 Arizona advancing to the Sweet 16. He also failed to get risky when it was needed, correctly predicting only three of the 13 first-round upsets.

Sports Illustrated's Seth Davis

First-Round Winners Picked: 20/32 (4/8 South, 5/8 West, 7/8 East, 4/8 Midwest)

Second-Round Winners Picked: 8/16 (3/4 South, 3/4 West, 1/4 East, 1/4 Midwest)

After one round, it looked like Davis' East region might carry an otherwise terrible bracket. He correctly predicted seven of the eight outcomes, only missing Stephen F. Austin's shocking upset of West Virginia.

That completely changed in the second round. His only correct Sweet 16 pick in the East was North Carolina, but he did do a nice job salvaging his bracket by getting three of four second-round winners correct in both the South and West regions.

The right side of his bracket is now a total mess, with only one of his Elite Eight picks on that side (Virginia) remaining in the tournament. His respective East and Midwest Final Four selections of West Virginia and Michigan State are both long gone. It's looking like Davis will need some help from his bracket's left side to finish well, such as Texas A&M validating his faith with a Final Four berth.

Sports Illustrated's Pete Thamel

First-Round Winners Picked: 25/32 (5/8 South, 7/8 West, 7/8 East, 6/8 Midwest)

Second-Round Winners Picked: 13/16 (4/4 South, 4/4 West, 3/4 East, 2/4 Midwest)

Thamel's bracket numbers would be looking great in any year, but it's even more impressive in 2016, given all the upsets that have happened. He was fortunate to correctly pick three of the biggest ones in Round 1: No. 12 Yale over No. 5 Baylor, No. 14 Stephen F. Austin over No. 3 West Virginia and No. 12 Arkansas-Little Rock over No. 5 Purdue.

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Combine that with a lot of other smarter (and admittedly safer) selections, and he was an amazing 8-of-10 on his upset picks in the first round. He also correctly placed three teams in the Sweet 16 that wouldn't have been there if the seeding had played out: No. 5 Maryland, No. 5 Indiana and No. 6 Notre Dame.

Although Thamel did pick first-round loser Michigan State to make the Final Four, so did everyone mentioned above and so many others in the world. He'll finish pretty well no matter what happens from here on out, considering he correctly tabbed 13 of the Sweet 16 representatives.

Check out Bleacher Report's live updating bracket to track your picks along the road to the Final Four.