"One Shining Moment" Part 2 - Our Sweet Sixteen Picks

With the NCAA tournament well underway, we polled some of our writers here at The Peorian to see who they think will make it to the Sweet Sixteen (a couple of these thoughts have already proven to be wrong [thanks a lot, Harvard!]). Next week, we'll reveal our Final Four and NCAA championship picks which are currently in a sealed envelope being protected by The Peorian's vicious commado cyborg attack plant named Craig.

Kevin Kizer
MIDWEST
Louisville/St. Louis/Michigan State/Duke
WEST
Gonzaga/Wisconsin/New Mexico/Ohio State
SOUTH
Kansas/Michigan/Florida/Georgetown
EAST
Indiana/Syracuse/Bucknell/Miami

Tim Cundiff
MIDWEST
Louisville/St. Louis/Michigan State/Creighton
WEST
Gonzaga/Wisconsin/New Mexico/Notre Dame
SOUTH
Kansas/Michigan/Minnesota/Georgetown
EAST
Indiana/UNLV/Marquette/Illinois

Steve Griffith
MIDWEST
Louisville/St. Louis/Michigan State/Duke
WEST
Gonzaga/Kansas State/New Mexico/Ohio State
SOUTH
Kansas/Michigan/Florida/Georgetown
EAST
Indiana/Syracuse/Butler/Miami

Troy Smith
MIDWEST
Louisville/St. Louis/Michigan State/Duke
WEST
Wichita State/Wisconsin/New Mexico/Ohio State
SOUTH
Kansas/VCU/Florida/Georgetown
EAST
Indiana/Syracuse/Butler/Miami

Greg Stewart
MIDWEST
Louisville/St. Louis/Michigan State/Duke
WEST
Gonzaga/Wisconsin/New Mexico/Ohio State
SOUTH
Kansas/Michigan/Florida/Georgetown
EAST
Indiana/Syracuse/Butler/Illinois

About the Author

A Juilliard-trained writer, Kevin Kizer has fought against numerous world-champion writers during his career, besting the reigning middle weight writing champion in an exhibition bout in Helsinki in 1976. He also played a crucial role on the U.S. gold-medal winning writing team during the 1984 Pan-Am games, where he came off the bench in dramatic fashion to write the winning prepositional phrase just as time expired.