I threw the fun bracket idea out on Twitter (@kerrancejames) and got a mixed bag of responses. Most of them were ones I had already come up with, but @phillipbeneteau came up with one that I really liked.

He suggests putting all the school names in a hat and then as you pull the name, that team advances as far as possible. So, for example, if the first name you pull is Notre Dame, they're your national champion. If the second name you pull is Iowa State, too bad so sad, because they play Notre Dame in the first round. Keep pulling names until your bracket is full.

Each No. 1 seed gets 16 entries into the hat. Each No. 2 seed gets 15 entries into the hat, and so on and so forth. Better yet, if you have a lifetime supply of ping pong balls lying around, you're really weird but you're well-prepared for this bracket idea.

Yeah, you're going to pull a lot of duplicates, but you just took the time to put 568 slips of paper into a hat. Clearly, you have nothing better to do.