ESPN will visit the White House on Tuesday, March 13, for President Barack Obama’s NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournament picks. The exclusive first interview with the Commander in Chief on this year’s tournament teams will again take place with ESPN.com senior writer Andy Katz and basketball analyst Doris Burke. President Obama’s National Semifinal predictions for both the men’s and women’s tournaments will be released Tuesday evening.

In addition, segments of the interview and his National Championship men’s pick will debut on ESPN’s SportsCenter Wednesday, March 14, at 9 a.m. ET while his women’s pick will be revealed Friday, March 16, also at 9 a.m.  Both interviews and his complete brackets will also be available on ESPN.com and ESPN Mobile platforms, and on subsequent editions of SportsCenter and various ESPN platforms, following the debuts. 

This marks the fourth straight year in which President Obama has completed a men’s bracket exclusively with ESPN and the third he has publicly provided his bracket for the women’s tournament.

The President’s men’s and women’s brackets will be posted on ESPN.com shortly after each is unveiled on SportsCenter and will appear alongside those from the millions of fans expected to play in ESPN.com’s ESPN Men’s Tournament Challenge presented by State Farm and Infiniti USA and ESPN Women’s Tournament Challenge.

In 2011, President Obama’s men’s bracket ranked 746,086 overall, placing him in the 87.4 percentile.  While he didn’t predict any of the Final Four teams in the previous two years, he correctly picked North Carolina to win the National Championship in 2009.  President Obama placed in the 77.09 percentile of his women’s bracket entry last year.

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