Some Marlins do the brackets - NCAA that is

by craig on Mar 21, 2008 8:58 AM EDT in News and Rumors

In case you aren't aware of it, the NCAA basketball tournament has started. The Men's that is, the Women's begins on Saturday.

This post is far from a complete listing of the favorites to win in the Marlins organizational bracket pool for March Madness.

Today we feature the ones with North Carolina ties. Tomorrow, we will forget this idea ever existed.

Marlins pitcher Andrew Miller tells espn.com that Cameron Maybin gives Miller's girlfriend -- former Duke soccer player Katie Roark -- grief when she shows up in Blue Devils gear (the three former Tigers in the Miguel Cabrera-Dontrelle Willis deal, including Mike Rabelo, share a spring training apartment).

"Cameron is always giving Katie a hard time," said Miller, a former Tar Heel himself. "If she wears her Duke shirt, he's like, 'Awww, take that off!' "

Said Maybin: "I'm a big N.C. advocate. I like Mike Krzyzewski a lot, but I don't like Duke."

Given that Miller went to UNC and Maybin is from North Carolina, I'm guessing that in their brackets, they took the Tar Heels to win it all.

Jack McKeon, who resides in North Carolina, decided to hedge his bets.

You like North Carolina to win the NCAA Tournament?

I hope so, but I'm going with UCLA. If you start playing UCLA and Louisville and Kansas, you can't get down by 15 points and think you're going to come back. Not against those teams. They might. I got two sheets. I got one for Carolina to go all the way and one for UCLA.

So if you happen to see a light blue foot with a black dot on the heel embossed on their face during the next few weeks, you will know why.

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