Following up on this:

SHOT: "Obama calls No. 1 Kentucky"

CHASER: "No. 1 Kentucky Upset at South Carolina"

Though to be fair to the president, he did offer this prescient advice in his phone conversation with the Kentucky basketball squad yesterday: "There is that tendency once you get to number one to let down a little bit," Obama said.

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