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March Madness keyword analysis

Well, March Madness is upon us. The 2006 NCAA Tournament is underway and basketball fans everywhere are monitoring their NCAA brackets. This got us thinking: what if the tournament were to play out based off of CPCs (in the top positions regardless of click volume) instead of actual games and points? Which schools have the most valuable names?

So, how does it all play out? Well, the Texas Longhorns come out of Atlanta, hardly working up a sweat, with only the Syracuse Orange and LSU Tigers putting up anything resembling a fight. Oakland sees the closest competition with the Arkansas Razorbacks barely making it past the Kansas Jayhawks in the third round and then the Xavier Musketeers who narrowly defeat the UCLA Bruins. The Boston College Eagles wipe out everyone in Minneapolis, including darkhorses the Villanova Wildcats and the Oklahoma Sooners. The UNC Tarheels experience essentially no resistance whatsoever out of the weakest division in Washington DC.

Lastly, the Final Four plays out with the Texas Longhorns eliminating the UNC Tarheels to meet the Boston College Eagles who wiped out the Arkansas Razorbacks. The tournament champion ends up being the Boston College Eagles who really had no competition at all as, from a CPC perspective, they were the only team with a CPC coming in over the two dollar mark. Check out the brackets below to see how all the other teams fared.

Atlanta   Oakland (1) Duke Blue Devils ($0.47-0.66) (16) Southern Jaguars ($0.05-0.55) (8) George Washington Colonials ($0.70-0.87) (9) UNC-Wilmington Seahawks ($0.00-2.67) (5) Syracuse Orange ($1.13-1.41) (12) Texas A&M Aggies ($1.03-1.33) (4) LSU Tigers ($0.74-1.11) (13) Iona Gaels ($0.24-0.34) (6) West Virginia Mountaineers ($0.56-0.84) (11) Southern Illinois Salukis ($0.64-0.83) (3) Iowa Hawkeyes ($0.35-0.53) (14) Northwestern State Demons ($0.00-0.00) (7) California Golden Bears ($0.68-0.89) (10) NC State Wolfpack ($0.80-1.00) (2) Texas Longhorns ($1.31-1.73) (15) Pennsylvania Quakers ($0.42-0.53) (1) Memphis Tigers ($0.48-0.70) (16) Oral Roberts Golden Eagles (no data) (8) Arkansas Razorbacks ($0.95-1.43) (9) Bucknell Bison ($0.05-0.50) (5) Pittsburgh Panthers ($0.61-0.87) (12) Kent State Golden Flashes ($0.00-0.39) (4) Kansas Jayhawks ($1.02-1.33) (13) Bradley Braves ($0.26-0.38) (6) Indiana Hoosiers ($0.55-0.79) (11) San Diego State Aztecs ($0.62-0.93) (3) Gonzaga Bulldogs ($0.74-0.97) (14) Xavier Musketeers ($1.06-1.32) (7) Marquette Golden Eagles ($0.69-0.94) (10) Alabama Crimson Tide ($0.67-0.88) (2) UCLA Bruins ($0.99-1.23) (15) Belmont Bruins (no data) Washington, D.C.   Minneapolis (1) Connecticut Huskies ($0.77-0.96) (16) Albany Great Danes ($0.05-0.05) (8) Kentucky Wildcats ($0.55-0.71) (9) UAB Blazers ($0.49-0.66) (5) Washington Huskies ($0.41-0.62) (12) Utah State Aggies ($0.17-0.35) (4) Illinois Fighting Illini ($0.51-0.76) (13) Air Force Falcons ($0.33-0.55) (6) Michigan State Spartans ($0.48-0.64) (11) George Mason Patriots (no data) (3) UNC Tarheels ($1.06-1.59) (14) Murray State Racers ($0.05-0.07) (7) Wichita State Shockers ($0.17-0.28) (10) Seton Hall Pirates ($0.23-0.39) (2) Tennessee Volunteers ($0.54-0.81) (15) Winthrop Eagles (no data) (1) Villanova Wildcats ($0.77-1.11) (16) Monmouth Hawks ($0.05-0.08) (8) Arizona Wildcats ($0.42-0.58) (9) Wisconsin Badgers ($0.61-0.91) (5) Nevada Wolfpack ($0.48-0.60) (12) Montana Grizzlies ($0.40-0.50) (4) Boston College Eagles ($1.41-2.11) (13) Pacific Tigers ($0.11-0.19) (6) Oklahoma Sooners ($0.92-1.33) (11) Wisconsin Milwaukee Panthers (no data) (3) Florida Gators ($0.47-0.70) (14) South Alabama Jaguars (no data) (7) Georgetown Hoyas ($0.51-0.77) (10) Northern Iowa Panthers ($0.23-0.42) (2) Ohio State Buckeyes ($0.64-0.96) (15) Davidson Wildcats ($0.28-0.40)