Update - Weekend Of March Madness Stays True

Update Monday 11:15 p.m.:

What a great weekend for college basketball, both on the men's and women's side. The University of Washington men's and women's teams  continue in the NIT tournament. The men host Pac-12 rival Oregon in a quarterfinal matchup on Tuesday at 6 p.m. (on ESPN and KJR-950 AM); while the women head to Corvallis, Oregon to play Pac-12 rival Oregon State in a third round matchup (No TV, only radio  KKNW 1150 AM).

A win for the men's team would advance them to New York City for the NIT semifinals on March 27 either 7 p.m. or 9 p.m. on ESPN and KJR-950 AM. The teams split the regular season.

A win for the women's team would advance them to quarterfinals. The Beavers won both regular season games.

NCAA Men's Tournament

After taking a hit on Friday, my brackets recovered Saturday and Sunday with 10 of 16 teams remaining. Don't feel bad if your brackets have less teams, ESPN's Dick Vitale has only 8 teams left, he selected Missouri and Florida State in the final four (they are out).

President Obama has 11 remaining teams with Missouri the only team in his final four that are out. The President has Kentucky and North Carolina in the final two, with NC winning (no final score was predicted).

NCAA Women's Tournament

Second round action gets underway tonight and Tuesday. No. 11 seed Gonzaga upset No. 6 seed Rutgers; No. 13 seed Marist beat No. 4 Georgia; and No. 11 seed Kansas beat No. 6 seed Nebraska.

Baylor who is undefeated at 35-0 is still the heavy favorite to win it all.

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Update Friday 7 p.m. - My brackets took a hit when No. 15 seed Norfolk State defeated No. 2 seed Missouri Friday. Now No. 15 Lehigh knocks off No. 2 Duke and brackets nation wide go to the waste side.

According to ESPN.com no brackets remain correct picking winners , only one bracket has one loss thru 28 games.

However looking at my six-year-olds brackets, he selected both Norfolk State and Lehigh to win and believes in the underdog. He also selected, Ohio, VCU, NC State, Colorado and Purdue. And he's not done, Xavier over Notre Dame, USF over No. 5 Temple, No. 15 Detriot over No. 2 Kansas.

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Day one of the NCAA Tournament is complete. How did your brackets do? Or better yet, how did you watch or get updates on your games if you work during the day?

CareerBuilder's annual survey found one-in-five workers (20 percent) said they have participated in March Madness pools at work. Nearly one-in-ten watch March Madness games at the office and 17 percent spend, on average, more than an hour checking scores while on the clock.

Two in five, or 42 percent, of IT professionals say March Madness has impacted their network with 37 percent reporting the activity has slowed down the workplace network and 34 percent reporting it has shut down entirely, according to Modis, a Seattle-based IT staffing and recruiting company. Modis polled 500 IT professionals in its survey.

Those IT professionals also stated they dislike (75% of those polled) employees watching sporting events like March Madness.

With that being said, employees are finding other ways through social media to get updates. Kansas has already beat Duke according to Mashable Social Media.

Kansas scores a “Social Media Power Ranking” of 5.2 on the strength of its 18,000 Twitter followers and 137,000 Facebook fans. Smaller Duke, which finished second in the social media Big Dance, scores a 4.6 behind its 36,000 Twitter followers and nearly 40,000 Facebook fans.

The University of Washington men’s team has 3,689 Twitter followers and 13,375 Facebook likes. Compare that to Gonzaga’s 21,443 Facebook likes and 5,996 Twitter followers (used for all teams).

Back to the brackets – this has to be the best first day for this sports reporter's bracket, scoring 140 points.

NIT First Round

Picked 11 of 16 games correct, including UW.

Day One of NCAA tournament

Picked 14 of 16 games correct, including VCU's upset over Wichita State and Colorado's win over UNLV. Currently ranked 185,598 in ESPN's match.

President Obama also picked  14 of 16 games correct.

Dick Vitale from ESPN picked 12 of 16 games correct.

LeBron James picked 11 of 16 games correct.

Day Two of NCAA tournament

Look for more upsets on day two; this will make or break my overall bracket. Texas over Cincinnati, Alabama over Creighton, North Carolina State over San Diego State, Purdue over St. Mary's and Xavier over Notre Dame.

Final Four

Kentucky vs Missouri

Ohio State vs North Carolina

Championship game

Kentucky vs North Carolina (with Tar Heels winning 73-68)