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Mark Wilson may have won his first PGA TOUR event earlier this year at The Honda Classic, but he's not going to be a winner this week. Not in the PGATOUR.com bracket competition, that is.

Wilson and Mike Hulbert were the only two out of the 15 PGA TOUR participants who are left without any teams in the Final Four. Zach Johnson and Troy Matteson stand at the top of the list, correctly picking three of the four teams in the semi-finals at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta when they filled out brackets at the start of the tournament.

(AP)

WHO THEY PICKED

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Florida meets UCLA in a rematch of last year's NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament title game -- where the Florida Gators emerged victorious -- and Ohio State faces Georgetown in the Peach State on Saturday. If Ohio State and Florida both were to win, it would be déjà vu for the second straight round for Florida, albeit in a different sport, as they create a rematch of their National Championship win in football over the Buckeyes.

Several of the PGA TOUR pros foresaw Florida and Ohio State's two-sport dominance, with Camilo Villegas, Johnson Wagner, Charles Warren, Matteson, and Johnson all predicting both teams to make it to the Final Four. Five correctly picked Georgetown and just two thought UCLA would make it this far.

On the Champions Tour, not one of the six participants had much confidence in UCLA either, with none picking them to go to Atlanta. All had Florida in the Final Four, while just Jay Haas and D.A. Weibring picked Ohio State.

Tom Watson didn't take part in the PGATOUR.com predictions, but he did make an analogy to this year's exciting basketball tournament after being asked to comment on an unrelated matter -- a prediction of the winning score in the Ginn Championship Hammock Beach Resort.

"I am absolutely the worst prognosticator when it comes to scores," said Watson. He followed that up by adding, "I thought Kansas had a [chance of] beating UCLA because I watched UCLA lose to Washington the last game of the year. They looked awful."

But it's the NCAA tournament and, as Watson now knows, even teams who have a poor finish to the year can make a run when it counts. There's just no method to figuring out this Madness.