Long Beach State University Athletics
Kintergartners Pick Winners
3/13/2007 12:00:00 AM | General
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Kindergartners Pick Winners Bracket experts will tell you not to vote with your heart. They'll tell you to look at records, rankings, statistics and Well, don't bother explaining that to kindergartners. On Monday, we visited with Pam Kelly's kindergarten class at Chisholm Sitting cross-legged on the carpet after morning story time, we called University of Kansas fans will be glad to hear -- though probably not "Kan-sas! Kan-sas!" they chanted at one point during the voting.
Rock Why KU? "We live in Kansas," said 6-year-old Abbi Taylor. Enough said. Other picks took more thought. And although their choices were often They picked No. 12 seed Long Beach State over No. 5 seed Tennessee in "Because it's a beach," said Kionna Richards. (Sorry, Vols,
but the The students tended to favor schools from places they'd visited, or at The state of Texas was a big winner in the kids' bracket, with Texas, Percelle Finch-Anderson persuaded his classmates to vote for No. 14 The kids also liked teams with cool mascots ("Musketeers? They No. 12 seed Old Dominion advanced because they're the Monarchs, and The kids' Elite Eight shaped up this way: Florida, UNLV ("Ooooooooh! Final game: KU vs. Georgetown. The Hoyas had several things going for Yup. Just forget that stuff about voting with your heart. Always, |
