--- title: Barack Obama Reveals His 2019 March Madness Brackets Picks description: Former president and noted basketball enthusiast Barack Obama just revealed his 2019 March Madness NCAA tournament bracket. canonical: https://time.com/5539532/obama-march-madness-2019/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-03-21T16:10:34.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:02:47.388Z og:title: Barack Obama Reveals His 2019 March Madness Picks og:description: His Final Four might surprise you og:url: https://time.com/5539532/obama-march-madness-2019/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Barack Obama Reveals His 2019 March Madness Picks twitter:description: His Final Four might surprise you twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Ultimate Basketball Fan Barack Obama Reveals His 2019 March Madness Picks > Sponsored content. 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No. 16 seed Princeton's near-upset of No. 1 seed Georgetown in a 1989 first-round game made sure Cinderella would always get invited to the ball._  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Mar 21, 2019 4:10 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Mar 21, 2019 4:10 PM UTC Former president and noted basketball enthusiast [Barack Obama](http://time.com/5336305/barack-obamas-best-president-survey/) revealed his NCAA tournament brackets just in time for [March Madness 2019](http://time.com/5188345/march-madness-origins-word-phrase/), continuing a tradition he began while he was in the Oval Office. Obama, who memorably began publicly sharing his brackets during his time as the commander-in-chief, posted his picks for this year’s tourney via the Obama Foundation, [as he did last year](http://time.com/4702883/barack-obama-2017-ncaa-bracket/). This year, Obama has selected the Duke Blue Devils to take it all for the men’s championship, while for the women’s tourney, he selected longtime NCAA champions, the University of Connecticut. For his men’s picks, Obama selected Michigan, Tennessee, UNC, and of course, Duke for the Final Four, predicting that Duke will beat known rival UNC. His decision to select Duke as the champion might have surprised some, as Obama has frequently favored the Tar Heels in his March Madness picks in the past. See all the [Obama bracket picks](https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2015/03/17/all-presidents-picks-see-his-2015-ncaa-tournament-brackets) below. > [](https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1108756096733331456) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5539532/obama-march-madness-2019/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5539532/obama-march-madness-2019/"},"headline":"Ultimate Basketball Fan Barack Obama Reveals His 2019 March Madness Picks","datePublished":"2019-03-21T16:10:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T08:02:47.388Z","description":"His Final Four might surprise you","url":"https://time.com/5539532/obama-march-madness-2019/","keywords":["Newsfeed","March Madness","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5539532/obama-march-madness-2019/","name":"Ultimate Basketball Fan Barack Obama Reveals His 2019 March Madness Picks"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Georgetown vs. Princeton: The Game That Saved March Madness","description":"No. 16 seed Princeton's near-upset of No. 1 seed Georgetown in a 1989 first-round game made sure Cinderella would always get invited to the ball.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/z2mnNZ9m/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-03-19T23:01:36.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/z2mnNZ9m.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/5539532/obama-march-madness-2019/","duration":"PT9M34S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/5539532/obama-march-madness-2019/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```