March Madness is truly underway now that POTUS is weighing in.
On Thursday, Obama posted his bracket for the men's NCAA tournament. The president predicted that Kentucky will bring home the glory on April 6, becoming National Champions after an unprecedented undefeated season.
Obama picked Arizona, Duke, Kentucky, and Villanova as the teams he sees heading to the Final Four. He is posting his bracket for the women's competition tomorrow.
Bracket-making is not new for the president, whose love for basketball is well known. President Obama has partnered with ESPN for seven years and counting to fill out his brackets for both the NCAA men's and women's basketball tournaments. See an interactive version of his bracket over at ESPN.
But this year, he also used the moment to highlight the It's on Us campaign to prevent sexual assaults on college campuses. The awareness campaign launched this fall seeks to engage college students and campus communities in preventing sexual assault.
“It’s On Us” aims get the wider campus community to see preventing sexual assault as their responsibility to do something, big or small, to prevent it and primarily focuses on getting college men involved.
The NCAA's 1,100 member schools are backing the initiative, and some have released messages of support in recent weeks.