NCAA March Madness

Underdogs characteristically lurk in the shadows and bust brackets all the same. So, as madness is upon us, best beware of some sleeper selections to avoid a rude awakening.

March, it turns out, is about more than college basketball: UC Berkeley’s reputation as a top research institution was reaffirmed Monday, when the campus was crowned champion of the Thomson Reuters Metrics Mania tournament for a second time.