Ohio State, Duke Favorites to Win NCAA Tournament
March Madness is underway and two teams are in a virtual tie as the pick to win the NCAA tournament among college basketball fans.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Adults who watch college basketball at least once a week shows that 18% think the overall top seeded Ohio State Buckeyes will win the championship, but 17% say the same about defending champion Duke University. Fourteen percent (14%) think Kansas will win it all, while nine percent (9%) say the title will go to North Carolina.
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The survey of 719 College Basketball Fans was conducted on March 12-13, 2011 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 4 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
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