Raise your hand if you had Connecticut, Kentucky, Butler, and VCU in the Final Four.

Okay you two, put your hands down.

According to ESPN.com, a grand total of two out of 5.9 million brackets had this quartet convening in Houston to fight for the 2011 NCAA championship.

If you thought a 2, 3, 4, and 11 reaching the Final Four in 2006 was odd, a 3, 4, 8, and 11 is downright remarkable. VCU, an 11-seed, is this year's George Mason, but they can already claim a tougher road in that it has tak...


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