NCAA March Madness 2015: Possible 2016 Presidential Candidates Join Our NCAA Bracket Pool
A little more competition among potential White House hopefuls ...
— -- When in the course of human events a person, who is considering a 2016 presidential campaign, watches the NCAA basketball tournament, it becomes necessary for that person to participate in a joint ABC News/ESPN bracket pool.
Well, "necessary" might be pushing it, but 14 of the potential 2016 presidential candidates have done just that.
In partnership with our sister network ESPN, ABC News reached out to every major politician who's said he or she is looking at a run for the White House. The result: Our official NCAA bracket pool for possible 2016 aspirants, live and viewable at ESPN.com--in the same format we and everyone else uses for ESPN bracket pools with our friends.
See the ABC/ESPN 2016 Potential Candidates' Pool here, and see the ABC/ESPN 2016 Potential Candidates' NCAA Women's Pool here.
In this bracket challenge, the stakes could be presidential. See below who picked whom in the men's pool, and what it might mean for the future of the White House and the country.
JEB BUSH -- VIRGINIA
The GOP's 2016 frontrunner shies away from the NCAA frontrunner, Kentucky, and picks the University of Virginia to upset the Wildcats and win it all. Through the most jaded political lens, it could be considered a play for Virginia's coveted swing-state votes in the general election--but we know the former governor isn't looking that far ahead just yet.
BOBBY JINDAL -- LOUISIANA STATE
LINDSEY GRAHAM -- KENTUCKY
SCOTT WALKER -- WISCONSIN
MARTIN O'MALLEY -- MARYLAND
BEN CARSON -- KENTUCKY
CARLY FIORINA -- VIRGINIA
TED CRUZ -- KENTUCKY
JOHN BOLTON -- KENTUCKY
JIM GILMORE -- VIRGINIA
RICK SANTORUM -- WISCONSIN
BOB EHRLICH -- KENTUCKY
GEORGE PATAKI -- KENTUCKY
MIKE HUCKABEE -- ARKANSAS
ABC's Shushannah Walshe, Arlette Saenz, and Liz Kreutz contributed to this project.