Revisiting our March Madness predictions: How'd we do? Grading our brackets

Picking NCAA Tournament brackets are hard. Usually they end up in the trash can by the end of the first weekend.

Iowa's upset over Florida wiped out a large portion of the field. And Tennessee's win over No. 3 Virginia in the second round claimed the final last perfect bracket of the more than 35 million submitted in the major online challenges, including USA TODAY's.

So keep that in mind when taking a look at how our staff fared through March Madness' first two rounds.

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