Which March Madness school has most famous alumni? Check out our celebrity bracket

There are many ways to fill out your March Madness bracket. Team color. Mascots. Geography. Maybe even basketball knowledge.

We offer an alternative: famous alumni.

We looked at all 68 schools to see which one had the most notable alumni (or at least attended the universities) and used the bracket to see which team would advance all the way to the national championship.

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EAST

First round

No. 1 Duke vs No. 16 Siena

DUKE

On the bench: Melinda Gates (philanthropist, ex-wife of Bill Gates), Jared Harris (actor)

Silver is in his 12th year as NBA commissioner after serving eight years as David Stern’s deputy. He was lauded as Sports Illustrated’s Executive of the Year, Time’s 100 Most Influential People and Fortune’s 50 Greatest Leaders in his first few years on the job, but has had some up-and-down moments since. Don’t we all? … You know Jeong from NBC sitcom “Community” and as Leslie Chow in “The Hangover” trilogy… Retta (Marietta Sireleaf) starred on another NBC sitcom, “Parks and Recreation” as Donna. “Treat yo self!” She also starred in NBC’s dramedy “Good Girls”…  Downs played Abbi’s love interest in Comedy Central’s “Broad City” and stars and is co-creator of HBO’s hit comedy “Hacks”, which earned him an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series… Stork was “The Bachelor” in Season 8, and America fell in love with the hunky doctor. His bachelorette pick didn’t work out, and they were broken up a week after the finale aired. But he turned that 15 minutes of fame into a daytime talk show “The Doctors” which ran from 2008-22.

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SIENA

Moniz was Dinah Marley on “Guiding Light” for five seasons and had a 22-episode run on “Nash Bridges”. Folks will most likely know her for her role as Governor Lynelle Perry opposite Kevin Costner in “Yellowstone”… One of the nation’s most vocal gun lobbyists, LaPierre served as NRA president from 1991-2024… Fish made his pro wrestling debut in 2002 and paid his dues in lower tiers before getting his break in WWE’s NXT in 2017 as a member of Undisputed Era. He was a two-time NXT tag team…


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