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"  After one of the more exciting weekends in NCAA Tournament history, we&amp;#039;re down to the Sweet Sixteen, where we&amp;#039;ve got everyone from perennial favorites like Duke and Michigan State to the out-of-nowhere Florida Gulf Coast Eagles aiming at a Final Four berth. Thankfully, the beautiful Angela Sun, a UCLA Bruins fan who hosts the Yahoo! Sports Minute, is here to give us her preview of the games. We talked to Angela about her love for the underdog, her picks for this week, and, of course, how her bracket is looking. ESQUIRE.COM: Sorry about your Bruins. How&amp;#039;d you mourn the loss to Minnesota? ANGELA SUN: There were lots of margaritas involved. [Laughs.] We definitely drowned our sorrows. It was unfortunate, but after Jordan Adams got hurt I didn&amp;#039;t feel like we were going to get that deep in the tournament. Of course, I still had to put them through to the Elite Eight in my bracket. ESQ: Of course. Are you rooting for or against your PAC-12 foes from Arizona and Oregon? AS: I&amp;#039;m definitely a conference ally. There&amp;#039;s no respect for the PAC-12. Oregon should have been a six or seven seed, but they ended up a twelve. They&amp;#039;re definitely the best double-digit seed left, but they were shafted and have to play Louisville now, who I have winning. But you never know. I mean, look at Florida Gulf Coast.  ESQ: They&amp;#039;ve been great to watch. AS: And everyone was blindsided by it, including them! Their story was originally about the coach&amp;#039;s supermodel wife, but who knew they&amp;#039;d be this great? Have you seen the school&amp;#039;s website? The first thing your met with is &amp;quot;DUNK CITY BRINGIN&amp;#039; IT TO THE SWEET 16.&amp;quot; ESQ: People love to watch small teams like Gulf Coast and George Mason Butler and VCU take down the big programs.  AS: It&amp;#039;s so fun. And I think people gravitate toward these young kids taking risks and playing with so much passion, and gusto, and umph. It&amp;#039;s still very raw and fresh and young. It&amp;#039;s cliche, but you really feel like they&amp;#039;re playing for the love of the game, and we embrace that. And everyone wants to see kind of a fairy tale story come true.  ESQ: And yet Duke will probably end up winning it anyway, just like when Butler made their run. AS: I definitely have Duke winning in one of my brackets. And Louisville on the other. So obviously even though I&amp;#039;m watching to root for the underdog, I appreciate the sheer talent of some of these top players.  ESQ: What&amp;#039;s funny is that to Duke or Kansas fans, nothing but a championship will do. But Gulf Coast&amp;#039;s run has already been deemed a massive success regardless of if they win another game. AS: And I poke fun at UCLA for the same reasons. We have a sense of entitlement. It&amp;#039;s a different perception of success, so it&amp;#039;s very refreshing to see the sheer joy and excitement of these teams. That&amp;#039;s why people watch.  ESQ: Okay, let&amp;#039;s do a lightning round for the record: Who do you like between Louisville and Oregon? AS: Louisville. Like I said, I have them winning the whole thing.  ESQ: Duke versus Michigan St.? AS: Man, those are two heavyweights. This is basically a Final Four game, and in the strongest region, too. But I&amp;#039;m taking Duke. ESQ: Wichita St. versus LaSalle? AS: It&amp;#039;s anyone&amp;#039;s guess. I had Gonzaga like everyone else who had their brackets busted. I&amp;#039;m going with LaSalle after their exciting win over Ole Miss.  ESQ: Ohio St. versus Arizona? AS: Well, I&amp;#039;d like to pick Arizona for you since that&amp;#039;s your team, but I&amp;#039;m going with Ohio St. They&amp;#039;re the new &amp;quot;sexy pick&amp;quot; now that Gonzaga is out. ESQ: Thanks. I appreciate you feigning PAC-12 solidarity earlier. Kansas versus Michigan? AS: Kansas. They&amp;#039;re just always solid.  ESQ: Florida versus Florida Gulf Coast? AS: I would obviously love to see Gulf Coast pull it off again, but I think it&amp;#039;s going to be Florida. Right? I&amp;#039;m definitely not missing that game. ESQ: Yeah, you have to figure some of the momentum has worn off after a long week. Indiana versus Syracuse? AS: This is another game between powerhouse programs. I&amp;#039;ll say Indiana. ESQ: Lastly, Miami versus Marquette? AS: Miami. They&amp;#039;re just such an impressive, strong team that wants to win. And I want to win my pool, so I have to root for them.  ESQ: Well done, miss. Would you take a do-over on your bracket, if you could? AS: Nah. So far I&amp;#039;m still alive. Gonzaga&amp;#039;s loss hurt almost everyone equally, and not to toot my own horn, but I&amp;#039;m going to anyway: I won one of the Yahoo! Sports pools last year. So I&amp;#039;m pretty confident in my picks.  ESQ: Can I ask what you won?  AS: [Laughs.] It&amp;#039;s all about bragging rights, especially for a girl. There&amp;#039;s this perception that women don&amp;#039;t know what you&amp;#039;re talking about, and we just pick based on something arbitrary like colors and mascots. And then we win and the boys get upset. ESQ: Yeah, I&amp;#039;ve always thought of that as more of a stereotype. AS: It is. Women are just a little more stealth and don&amp;#039;t brag about it as much. I like to read up on everything, do my research, and size up my coworkers before I make my picks. And my girlfriends are the same way. They&amp;#039;re into a lot more than some of the guys I know.  ESQ: Do your friends ever ask you, last year&amp;#039;s office champ, for advice?  AS:A lot of people ask me, but I kind of lay low. You never know what&amp;#039;s going to happen, especially if someone gets injured. And anyone who acts like they really know is kind of a kook. It&amp;#039;s all for fun, and I&amp;#039;d rather fly under the radar, then catch my wave and celebrate with a dance when I win. I dance any chance I get, on or off camera. Follow The Culture Blog on RSS and on Twitter at @ESQCulture. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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