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No school has won more NCAA men’s basketball titles than UCLA. Now the Bruins can lay claim to another type of March Madness crown – one captured not on the hardwood, but on K Street.
As the schools compete for spots in the Final Four, OpenSecrets has released its annual K Street College Classic bracket, picking each tournament matchup based on which school spent more in feder...
By examining the K Street College Classic, we can observe patterns of lobbying activity within higher education. This tournament mirrors the traditional NCAA basketball competition but measures success based on federal lobbying expenditures instead of athletic prowess. The University of California system, with UCLA as its representative, took home the crown due to a unique rule that consolidates system-wide lobbying dollars for participating schools. However, this event also highlights the incre...