NC State (12)
1. Zach Galifianakis,
actor, "The Hangover"
2. John Tesh, TV
composer
3. Scotty McCreery,
American Idol winner,
country singer
4. John Edwards,
former U.S. Senator
and vice presidential
candidate
5. Raymond T.
Odierno, Chief of
Staff of Army
Arizona St. (10)
1. Jimmy Kimmel,
host, "Jimmy Kimmel
Live!"
2. Kate Spade,
designer
3. David Spade, actor,
"Grown Ups"
4. Nick Nolte, actor,
"48 Hrs."
5. Steve Allen, host,
"The Tonight Show"
Texas (7)
Massachusetts (6)
Kansas St. (9)
Kentucky (8)
1. Eric Stonestreet,
actor, "Modern Family"
2. Kirstie Alley,
actress, "Cheers"
3. Erin Brockovich,
environmental activist
4. Pat Roberts, U.S.
Senator, Kansas
5. Sam Brownback,
U.S. Senator, Kansas
1. Bill Cosby,
1. Ashley Judd,
1. Walter Cronkite,
actor/comedian, "The
actress, "Kiss the Girls" former anchorman,
Cosby Show"
CBS Evening News
2. Mitch McConnell,
2. Richard Gere, actor,
U.S. Senator, Kentucky 2. Matthew
"Pretty Woman"
McConaughey, actor,
3. William Lipscomb,
"Dallas Buyers Club"
3. Natalie Cole,
Nobel Prize-winning
singer-songwriter
chemist
3. Wes Anderson,
filmmaker, "Rushmore" 4. Bill Pullman, actor,
4. Harry Dean
"Independence Day"
Stanton, actor, "Big
4. Michael Dell,
Love"
founder, and CEO, Dell
5. Jack Welch, former
Inc.
CEO, General Electric
5. John T. Scopes,
teacher, 'Scopes
5. Janis Joplin,
Monkey Trial'
singer-songwriter
Saint Louis (5)
Louisville (4)
1. Enrique Bolaños,
former president of
Nicaragua
2. Robert Guillaume,
actor, "Benson"
3. Walter J. Ong,
religious historian
4. Gene Kranz, NASA
flight director
5. Thomas P. Barnett,
architect/painter
1. Diane Sawyer,
news anchor
2. Sue Grafton,
author, “A is for Alibi”
3. Marsha Norman,
playwright, The Color
Purple (musical)
4. Robert Worth
Bingham, newspaper
publisher
5. Robert Nardelli,
CEO, Chrysler
Manhattan (13)
1. Rudy Giuliani, former
mayor of New York City
2. Ray Kelly, former
NYC police
commissioner
3. James Patterson, best-selling author
4. James Brady, columnist, Page Six
5. Bob Jeffrey, CEO, J. Walter Thompson
Mercer (14)
1. Nancy Grace, TV
host,"Nancy Grace"
2. Griffin Bell, former
U.S. Attorney General
3. Walter George,
former senator, President pro tempore
4. Carl Vinson, former congressman, "father
of the two-ocean navy"
Thomas Hardwick, former Georgia senator
and governor
There has always been one major drawback to the March ritual of filling out an NCAA
tournament bracket: The 68 schools invited to the tournament are only judged by their ability
to play basketball. That’s why The Wall Street Journal is introducing an entirely different basis
of comparison for colleges and universities. How fabulous are their alumni?
To mimic the NCAA tournament, the schools in our first-ever Alumni Bracket were assigned
a team of five. It didn’t matter if these alumni were living or dead, undergraduates or Ph.D.’s, or
1. Richard Nixon, 37th
President of the U.S.
2. Charlie Rose,
talk-show host,
"Charlie Rose"
3. Melinda Gates,
philanthropist, Bill &
Melinda Gates
Foundation
4. David Rubenstein,
managing director,
Carlye Group
5. Elizabeth Dole,
former U.S. Senator,
North Carolina
Michigan (2)
Wichita St. (1)
Florida (1)
1. Gerald Ford, 38th
President of the U.S.
2. James Earl Jones,
actor, "The Great
White Hope"
3. Arthur Miller,
playwright, "Death of
a Salesman"
4. Mike Wallace,
journalist, "60
Minutes"
5. Madonna, pop
singer
1. Riley Pitts, Medal
of Honor recipient
2. Shirley Knight,
actress, "The Dark at
the Top of the Stairs"
3. Carney Brothers,
founders, Pizza Hut
4. Joyce DiDonato,
opera singer
5. Karla Burns, opera
singer
1. Marco Rubio, U.S.
1. Alf Landon, former
Senator, Florida
Kansas governor, 1936
presidential candidate
2. Bob Graham,
former U.S. Senator,
2. Mandy Patinkin,
Florida
actor/singer,
"Homeland"
3. Faye Dunaway,
actress, "Bonnie and
3. Paul Rudd, actor,
Clyde"
"Anchorman"
4. Joe Scarborough,
4. Don Johnson, actor,
TV host, "Morning Joe" "Miami Vice"
5. Stephen Stills,
5. Bob Dole, 1996 U.S.
musician, Crosby,
presidential candidate
Stills & Nash
Kansas (2)
Syracuse (3)
1. Ted Koppel, TV
journalist, "Nightline"
2. Dick Clark,
radio/TV personality,
"American Bandstand"
3. Aaron Sorkin,
screenwriter, "The
Social Network"
4. Lou Reed, musician,
"The Velvet
Underground"
5. Vanessa Williams,
singer/fashion model
UCLA (4)
even whether they graduated. The metric we consulted in our selection process was a
proprietary statistic called Gross Overall Fame (GOF), which was based on a complex
algorithm that we’d prefer not to explain at this time. The only ineligible alumni were people
who are primarily known as athletes, coaches, team owners or commentators.
While we’ll leave the final decisions to you – go to wsj.com/sports next week to vote – we
decided to play out the first two rounds themselves.
Florida, the NCAA tournament’s No. 1 overall seed, may have the best basketball team in the
country, but Senator Marco Rubio’s Gators were stunned in the first round by the No. 16 seed
Albany, led by the potent combination of Steve Guttenberg and Harvey Milk. Manhattan also
pulled off a major first-round upset when former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani and
novelist James Patterson knocked off Louisville, the basketball tournament’s defending
national champion. The second round was highlighted by a high-powered matchup of
1. Patch Adams,
1. Dwight Yoakam,
doctor/social activist
country music
singer-songwriter
2. Debbie
Matenopoulos, TV
2. Roy Lichtenstein,
personality, “The View” pop artist
3. Stefan Lessard,
3. R. L. Stine,
bassist, Dave
children’s book author,
Matthews Band
“Goosebumps"
4. Stephen Furst,
4. James Thurber,
actor, "Animal House"
humorist
5. Founding members 5. Richard Lewis,
of GWAR, heavy
comedian
metal band
New Mexico (7)
Colorado (8)
1. Robert Redford,
1. Penny Marshall,
actor, “Butch Cassidy
director/producer, "A
and the Sundance Kid”
League of Their Own"
2. Trey Parker/Matt
2. Gary Johnson,
Stone, creators of
governor, New Mexico
“South Park”
3. Tom Udall, U.S.
3. Steve Wozniak,
Senator, New Mexico
co-founder of Apple
4. Elizabeth
Inc.
Lapovsky Kennedy,
4. Lynne Cheney,
historian/feminist
former Second Lady
5. Edward Abbey,
of U.S.
author/essayist, "The
Monkey Wrench Gang" 5. Dalton Trumbo,
two-time Oscar
winning screenwriter
“30-Rock” co-stars, as Tina Fey’s Virginia team lost to Alec Baldwin and the George
Washington Colonials.
But the team to beat in the Alumni Bracket is Harvard. Any school whose bench includes the
sitting Supreme Court chief justice, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and several ex-presidents
(sorry, Rutherford B. Hayes!) has to be a betting favorite.
Can they be beat? That, we’re happy to say, is up to you…
—Geoff Foster
Arizona
Colorado
Oklahoma State
(5) VCU
Stephen F. Austin
Oklahoma
(12) Stephen F. Austin
(4) UCLA
(13) Tulsa
(6) Ohio State
1. Barry Goldwater,
1964 U.S. presidential
candidate
2. Savannah Guthrie,
TV host, “The Today
Show”
3. Kristen Wiig, actress, “Bridesmaids”
4. David Foster Wallace, author, “Infinite Jest”
5. Geraldo Rivera, TV host, “Geraldo”
1. Frank Lloyd Wright,
architect
2. Charles Lindbergh,
aviator
3. Dick Cheney, former
Vice President of the U.S.
4. Saul Bellow, writer, "Herzog"
5. John Muir, naturalist/author
Creighton (3)
(3) Syracuse
(14) W. Michigan
(7) New Mexico
(10) Stanford
(2) Kansas
(16) Coastal Carolina
(8) Memphis
(9) Geo. Washington
(4) Michigan State
1. Gregory Peck, actor,
"To Kill a Mockingbird"
2. Julie Kavner,
actress/voice artist,
"The Simpsons"
3. Darren Kavinoky, TV legal analyst
4. Raquel Welch, actress, "One Million Years
B.C."
5. Art Linkletter, radio/TV personality, "Kids
Say the Darndest Things
Nebraska
Lafayette
Stanford
BYU
(11) Providence
(14) N.C. Central
(7) Connecticut
(10) St. Joseph’s
(2) Villanova
(15) Milwaukee
(11) Nebraska
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Stanford
Kansas
Virginia
Geo. Washington
Geo. Washington
Harvard
(7) Oregon
Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Wichita State
Kansas State
Kansas State
Manhattan
Delaware
East
Play-In (16)
Iowa State
Milwaukee
St. Joseph’s
Play-In (11)
Cal Poly: ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic,
comedian
vs
Texas Southern: Yolanda Adams,
gospel singer
Massachusetts
Duke
Iowa: Ashton Kutcher, actor,
“Two and a Half Men”
vs
Tennessee: Cormac McCarthy,
author, "The Road"
(1) Wichita State
(16) Cal. Poly/Texas Southern
(8) Kentucky
(5) Saint Louis
(4) Louisville
(11) Iowa/Tennessee
(7) Texas
(10) Arizona State
Texas
Michigan
Milwaukee
(6) Massachusetts
(14) Mercer
Texas
1. Tim Allen, actor,
"Home Improvement"
2. Bruce Campbell,
actor, "Evil Dead"
3. Terry Crews, actor,
"Brooklyn Nine-Nine"
4. Luther Vandross, singer-songwriter, record
producer
5. Homer Stryker, founder, Stryker Corporation
1. Lee Majors, actor,
"Six Million Dollar Man"
2. Sam Champion,
weatherman, "Good
Morning America"
3. Dustan McCoy, CEO, Brunswick Corporation
4. Thaksin Shinawatra, former prime minister,
Thailand
5. Tom Colbert, first African-American on
Oklahoma Supreme Court
Albany (16)
(3) Duke
Duke
1. Phillip "Dr. Phil"
McGraw, TV
psychologist
2. Rue McClanahan,
actress, "Golden Girls"
3. Jim Inhofe, U.S. Senator, Oklahoma
4. Mary Kay Place, actress, "The Big Chill"
5. Chad "Corntassel" Smith, Principal Chief of
Cherokee Nation
Eastern Kentucky (15)
(13) Manhattan
Midwest
North Carolina
(15) American
(12) N.C. State
Manhattan
Harvard
North Carolina
(10) BYU
(2) Wisconsin
(9) Kansas State
N.C. State
Stephen F. Austin (12)
Western Michigan (14)
(3) Creighton
(14) Louisiana-Lafayette
(13) Delaware
(6) North Carolina
(4) San Diego State
(6) Baylor
Nebraska
Syracuse
(12) Harvard
(3) Iowa State
San Diego St. (4)
West
(1) Virginia
(5) Cincinnati
1. Mike Johanns, U.S.
Senator, Nebraska
2. Michael Anderson,
astronaut
3. Cathy Hughes,
radio/TV personality, Radio One
4. James Keogh, speechwriter for Richard
Nixon
5. Ron Hansen, novelist, "The Assassination of
Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"
South
1. Joseph Desch,
inventor; WWII
codebreaker
2. Mike Turner, U.S.
congressman, Ohio
3. Erma Bombeck, humorist, syndicated
columnist
4. Don Novello, comedian, 'Father Guido Sarducci'
5. Charles Pederson, Nobel Prize-winning
chemist
Tulsa (13)
(13) New Mexico State
Syracuse
(15) E. Kentucky
Wisconsin (2)
San Diego State
Ohio State
1. Herbert Hoover,
31st President of the
U.S.
2. Sally Ride,
astronaut, first
American woman in
space
3. John Steinbeck,
author, "The Grapes of
Wrath"
4. Sandra Day
O'Connor, first female
Supreme Court
Justice
5. Larry Page/Sergey
Brin, founders, Google
(5) Oklahoma
(8) Gonzaga
(12) N. Dakota State
Oklahoma
UCLA
(11) Dayton
Arizona (1) UCLA
1. Gene Kelly,
actor/dancer/singer,
"Singin' in the Rain"
2. Fred Rogers, TV
host, "Mister Rogers'
Neighborhood"
3. August Wilson,
playwright, "Fences"
4. John Irving,
novelist, "The World
According to Garp"
5. Rick Santorum,
former U.S. Senator,
Pennsylvania
Stanford (10)
(9) Oklahoma State
(16) Weber State
Wofford (15)
1. Olin Johnston,
former South Carolina
senator and governor
2. Craig Melvin, anchor,
NBC News
3. Donald Fowler, former chairman, Democratic
National Committee
4. Ellison Smith, former South Carolina senator
5. Van Hipp, chairman, American Defense
International
Pittsburgh (9)
1. Don Henley, musician,
The Eagles
2. Rodney Crowell,
Grammy-winning
country music musician
3. Joseph W. Kennedy, discoverer of Plutonium
4. Will Jennings, songwriter, "My Heart Will Go
On"
5. Bill Owens, former Colorado governor
(1) Arizona
Arizona
Colorado
(9) Pittsburgh
Ohio St. (6)
Dayton (11)
Go to WSJ.com/Sports next week to vote on the Sweet Sixteen
Albany
(8) Colorado
VCU (5)
1. Jim Morrison,
musician, The Doors
2. Francis Ford
Coppola, director,
"The Godfather
3. James Dean, actor,
"Rebel Without a
Cause"
4. Carol Burnett,
comedian, "The Carol
Burnett Show"
5. Ben Stiller,
actor/director, "Meet
the Parents"
The Alumni Bracket
(1) Florida
(16) Albany
Duke (3)
(2) Michigan
(15) Wofford
1. Steve Guttenberg,
actor, "Police Academy"
2. Edward Burns,
actor/writer, "The
Brothers McMullen"
3. Harvey Milk, gay rights leader
4. Frank Whaley, actor, "Pulp Fiction"
5. John Ortiz, actor, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Virginia (1)
1. Edgar Allan Poe,
author/poet, “The Raven”
2. Tina Fey,
writer/actress, "30 Rock"
3. Katie Couric, TV
journalist, “CBS Evening News”
4. Ted Kennedy, former U.S. Senator,
Massachusetts
5. Robert Kennedy, former U.S. Attorney
General
Villanova (2)
Oklahoma (5)
1. Maria Bello, actress,
"A History of Violence"
2. Toby Keith, country
music artist
3. Ed Rendell, former
Pennsylvania governor
4. John Joseph O'Connor, former Cardinal
Archbishop of New York
5. David Rabe, playwright, "Hurlyburly"
1. Olivia Munn, actress,
"The Newsroom"
2. Ed Harris, actor,
"Apollo 13"
3. James Garner, actor,
"Maverick"
4. Fred Haise, astronaut
5. Huey Long, former Louisiana governor
Baylor (6)
Iowa St. (3)
1. Ann Richards, former
Texas governor
2. Thomas Harris,
author, "The Silence of
Lambs"
3. Willie Nelson, country music
singer-songwriter
4. Lawrence Sullivan Ross, former Texas
governor, Confederate Army general
5. Jeff Dunham, ventriloquist
1. George Washington
Carver, pioneering
scientist/botanist
2. Tom Harkin, U.S.
Senator, Iowa
3. Henry A. Wallace, former Vice President of
the U.S.
4. Carrie Chapman Catt, women's suffrage
leader
5. Thomas H. MacDonald, civil engineer, built
U.S. highway system
Oregon (7)
Michigan St. (4)
1. Phil Knight,
co-founder and
chairman, Nike
2. Ken Kesey, author,
"One Flew Over the
Cuckoo's Nest"
3. Chuck Palahniuk, author, "Fight Club"
4. Ann Curry, former host, "The Today Show"
5. Ty Burrell, actor, "Modern Family"
Gonzaga (8)
1. Bing Crosby,
singer/actor
2. Christine Gregoire,
former Washington
governor
3. Tom Foley, former
Speaker of the House
4. Sherman Alexie,
writer
5. John Navone,
Jesuit theologian
Oklahoma St. (9)
1. Garth Brooks,
country music singer
2. Gary Busey, actor,
"Point Break"
3. Tom Coburn, U.S.
Senator, Oklahoma
4. Ed Roberts,
inventor of personal
computer
5. T. Boone Pickens,
chairman, BP Capital
Management
Photos: Associated Press; Getty
Illustration by Bruce MacPherson
BYU (10)
1. Mitt Romney, 2012
U.S. presidential
candidate
2. Orrin Hatch, U.S.
senator, Utah
3. Aaron Eckhart,
actor, "The Dark
Knight"
4. Ken Jennings,
"Jeopardy!" champion
5. Stephenie Meyer,
author, “Twilights”
Nebraska (11)
1. Johnny Carson,
host, "The Tonight
Show"
2. John J. Pershing,
General of the Armies,
WWI
3. Warren Buffett,
CEO, Berkshire
Hathaway
4. Willa Cather,
novelist, "O Pioneers!"
5. Chuck Hagel, U.S
Secretary of Defense
N. Dakota St. (12)
New Mexico St. (13)
1. Alf Clausen, film
and TV composer,
"The Simpsons"
2. Gilmore Schjeldahl,
inventor, airsickness
bag
3. Eldon W. Joersz,
pilot, holds World
Speed Record
4. Charles Wald,
decorated four-star
general, U.S. Air Force
5. Gil Rud, former
Blue Angels
commander
1. Alvy Ray Smith,
co-founder, Pixar
2. Kevin Johnson,
former CEO, Juniper
Networks
3. Steve Pearce, U.S.
congressman, New
Mexico
4. Paul Wilbur Klipsch,
audio pioneer,
invented horn
loudspeaker
5. Cyrus Nowrasteh,
screenwriter,
filmmaker, "The Path
to 9/11"
LouisianaLafayette (14)
1. Frank Ocean,
rapper
2. Richard Simmons,
TV fitness personality
3. Daniel Sunjata,
actor, "Rescue Me"
4. Ali Landry, former
Miss USA
5. A. Hays Town,
architect
American (15)
1. Danny Glover, actor,
"Lethal Weapon"
2. Goldie Hawn,
actress, "Private
Benjamin"
3. Star Jones, TV
personality
4. David Gregory,
host, "Meet the Press"
5. Neil Cavuto, TV
anchor, Fox News
Weber St. (16)
1. J. Williard Marriott,
founder Marriott
Corporation
2. Nolan Archibald,
former CEO, Black &
Decker
3. Dee Hock, creator
of Visa credit card
4. Fawn Brodie,
biographer/historian
5. David Kennedy,
former U.S. Secretary
of Treasury
Coastal
Carolina (16)
1. Michael Kelly, actor,
"House of Cards"
2. Elise Testone,
singer-songwriter
3. Michael D. Pruitt,
CEO, Chanticleer
Holdings
4. Sonny Gupta, CEO,
Maintec Technologies
5. Bailey Hanks,
Broadway actress,
"Legally Blonde: The
Musical"
Milwaukee (15)
1. Golda Meir, former
prime minister of
Israel
2. Alberto Fujimori,
former president of
Peru
3. Satya Nadella, CEO,
Microsoft
4. Jim Rygiel,
Oscar-winning visual
effects supervisor,
“Lord of the Rings"
5. Frank Caliando,
comedian
N. Carolina
Central (14)
1. Andre Leon Talley,
former Vogue editor
2. Mike Easley,
former North Carolina
governor
3. Maynard Jackson,
first African-American
mayor of Atlanta
4. Ivan Dixon, actor,
"Hogan Heroes"
5. G.K. Butterfield,
congressman, North
Carolina
Delaware (13)
Harvard (12)
1. Joe Biden, Vice
President of the U.S.
2. Susan Stroman,
theater director, "The
Producers"
3. Chris Christie,
Governor of New
Jersey
4. Steve Schmidt,
campaign
strategist/political
analyst
5. Jill Biden, Second
Lady of the U.S.
1. Theodore
Roosevelt, 26th
President of the U.S.
2. Franklin D.
Roosevelt, 32nd
President of the U.S.
3. John F. Kennedy,
35th President of the
U.S.
4. John Adams, 2nd
President of the U.S.
5. Bill Gates,
co-founder, Microsoft
Providence (11)
1. Chris Dodd, former
U.S. senator,
Connecticut
2. Janeane Garofalo,
comedian/actress,
"Reality Bites"
3. Peter Farrelly,
director, "There's
Something About
Mary"
4. Robert Gallo,
biomedical researcher,
discovered HIV
5. J. Howard McGrath,
former U.S. Attorney
General
Saint Joseph's (10)
1. William Cahill,
former congressman,
governor of New
Jersey
2. Lil Jon, rapper
3.Joseph McKenna,
former justice, U.S.
Supreme Court
4. John Lehman,
former Secretary of
the Navy
5. Andrew von
Eschenbach,
chairman, Food and
Drug Administration
George
Washington (9)
1. Alec Baldwin, actor,
"30 Rock"
2. Kerry Washington,
actress, "Scandal"
3. L. Ron Hubbard,
founder, Church of
Scientology
4. Jackie Onassis,
former First Lady of
the U.S
5. J. Edgar Hoover,
first director of the
FBI.
Memphis (8)
Connecticut (7)
1. James Caan, actor,
"The Godfather"
2. Eli Broad,
philanthropist
/entrepreneur
3. Sam Raimi, director, "Spider-Man"
4. Tom Sizemore, actor, "Natural Born Killers"
5. Lloyd Groff Copeman, inventor, electric
stove/ice-cube tray
N. Carolina (6)
1. Fred Thompson,
1. Meg Ryan, actress,
1. James K. Polk, 11th
former U.S. senator;
"When Harry Met Sally" President of the U.S.
actor ("Die Hard 2")
2. Moby, musician/DJ
2. Andy Griffith, actor,
2. Cybill Shepard,
"The Andy Griffith
3. David Lee, Nobel
actress, "Moonlighting" Prize-winning
Show"
3. Dixie Carter,
physicist
3. Chris Matthews,
actress, "Designing
TV political
4. Bobby Moynihan,
Women"
commentator
comedian, "Saturday
4. Wink Martindale,
Night Live"
4. Lewis Black,
game-show host, “The 5. Bob Diamond,
comedian
Joker’s Wild”
former CEO, Barclays
5. Jack Palance, actor,
5. Nancy Walton
"City Slickers"
Laurie, Wal-Mart
heiress
Cincinnati (5)
1. George Clooney,
actor, “Ocean’s Eleven”
2. William Howard
Taft, 27th President
of U.S.
3. Nipsey Russell,
Comedian, TV
personality
4. William Strunk Jr.,
author, “The Elements
of Style”
5. Joseph Strauss,
engineer, Golden Gate
Bridge
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