Move over Jay Bilas, Charles Barkley and Nate Silver.
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan has a full-time job, but she could moonlight as a college basketball prognosticator judging by her most recent NCAA men’s and women’s tournament predictions.
Durkan, an avid basketball fan, correctly picked the Notre Dame women and Villanova men to win the national championship in brackets posted on her Twitter account last month.
“I got some biases,” Durkan said. “The hardest thing for me it to separate head and heart. I can be critical of team, but then I have my favorites.”
Admittedly, Durkan allowed sentimentality to override conventional wisdom as it pertained to the Seattle University women, which made its first NCAA tournament appearance.