She’s a girl that knows her basketball. She’s a girl who picked Duke to lose in the first round and Wisconsin out of the Sweet Sixteen.
Meet Kiley Weidman, of West Michigan.
Origin of expertise: Unknown.
Through two rounds the subject has risen to the top of the charts of Facebook’s coveted prize, out-bracketing everyone including yours truly.
She’s poised to win $25,000 – somehow – predicting each Sweet 16 attendee correctly.
No evidence of her having knowledge we don’t, which leaves the rest of us to ponder and speculate.
Perhaps she’s a bookie who put the muscle on Coach K.
Maybe she switched Wisconsin’s water jugs with liquour during their second-round loss to UNLV, as their players mirrored a bunch of weaving drunks on Broadway near The Boot.
Perhaps she’s paying off the players with the money she’s bound to get like another Michigan few (dare I invoke the name of the Fab Five).
Through 48 games, she’s predicted each outcome. Considering the only thing you can predict in Michigan is cold weather, there is no way she is who or what she says she is.
No, Kiley Weidman is neither a bookie nor a saboteur. She is Nostradamus … he/she whatever.
Disguised as a brunette college-aged woman, this prophet knows something about the future. Imagine discovering meaning in the world’s most puzzling things. Why do doughnuts have holes? Why is it that when I flip an M it becomes a W? What will come of Ron Artest and the future of rap music?
Upon my realizing her true identity, I could only do one thing: poke her.
I don’t know if Ms. Weidman lost her crystal ball or what, but there was no response by press time.
If the prophecy remains and Florida wins, we’ll know if she’s for real. Nostradamus (pseudonym Kiley Weidman) prophesized that the defending national champions will face UNC in the final and that Florida will prevail.
Obviously picking Florida to win is no stretch. They have three players that are NBA-bound and have one of the most explosive offenses (so I picked them to lose against Oregon). For the others who have guessed right, I present another theory.
Take Epic Systems. This Wisconsin-based company has made it to the top of Facebook’s company network category. Upon realizing what this company does, it was easy discover how they were able to out-bracket the best companies out there: They cracked the system.
Epic Systems is a healthcare software developer. They got some numbers guy figuring our every possible scenario. C’mon, who would have thought Southern Illinois would be in Sweet Sixteen?
The top high school network is Kewaskum High, also in Wisconsin. Upon investigation, I discovered this 655-student school doesn’t even have a basketball team!
And that made me come to the realization: They’re like Starbucks coffee. They’re like car repairs. They’re like ATM fees. They’re like popcorn at the movies
The brackets are a rip-off.