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March Madness 2022: What ESPN's experts got right and wrong in Final Four picks

Remember the halcyon days of March Madness 2022? It was the glorious time between Selection Sunday and the first round of the NCAA tournament. Before the upsets and Cinderellas laid waste to our brackets, we were all college basketball whizzes.

Our brackets were perfect. The same goes for ESPN's panel of experts who picked their Final Fours before the tournament began.

Then the games happened.

Check your brackets

ESPN's college basketball writers, commentators and analysts made their predictions shortly after the tournament field was announced on Selection Sunday. Here's how the 54 respondents did -- what they got right and what they missed:

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