President Barack Obama and I share something in common other than just our transcendent charisma and impeccable fashion sense.

Yes, we both made the same Final Four predictions in our NCAA bracket.

Now, I must clarify that we did this independent of each other, with no collusion beforehand. But each of us selected Louisville, Memphis, North Carolina and Pittsburgh. We only differed on the eventual champion, with Obama favoring the Tar Heels and me taking the Penguins — or whatever the Pittsburgh nickname is these days.

That’s the great thing about March Madness: Everybody loves to print off a bracket from the Web site of their choice and bet their reputation on things wildly out of their control. They don’t even need any sound method to their madness.

Last year I spotlighted my buddy Jeff Drake’s site, in which he filled out a bracket entirely based on how the basketball teams would do if their respective mascots battled to the death.

His championship matchup — all selected prior to the start of the 2008 tournament — came down to the Kansas Jayhawks vs. the Michigan State Spartans.

He wrote: “Do I believe that a Civil War-era guerrilla fighter could defeat a warrior from 480 BC?

I do when those fighters have five future NBA players on the floor and can beat you in the paint or from behind the arc. Even the Oracle at Delphi says, ‘Jayhawks by 12.'”

Improbably and insanely, Drake’s formula worked. But since he decided to forgo the same concept this year, I began searching for other screwy March brackets to pore over.

Fortunately, I came across one too amusing to ignore.

Take a gander at the Name of the Year Ballot.

Founded in 1983 on an Ivy League campus, Name of the Year has been “collecting great names … so you don’t have to.” Specifically, its mission is to “discover, verify, nominate, elect and disseminate great names.”

The contest runs concurrent to the NCAA tournament, and similarly features a Final Four-style printable bracket that is filled out each round by online voters.

Only instead of the Gonzaga Bulldogs taking on the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers, this competition finds Telephone Mtoko duking it out with Dr. Shasta Kielbasa.

The No. 1 seeds look particularly strong this year with Taco Vandervelde, Calamity McEntire, Rev. Valentine Handwerker and Iris Macadangdang all seeming primed and ready to take home the coveted trophy.

Of course, they face stiff competition from Moonlit Wang, Velvet Milkman and Larry Warmflash. Though pundits are predicting a possible upset from No. 4 seed Barkevious Mingo.

This year’s showdown hopes to generate the same thrills as the 2008 contest, in which a last-second buzzer beater led to overtime between Destiny Frankenstein and Spaceman Africa, with the latter finally prevailing.

Hard to believe Africa was only a No. 10 seed.

But whether it’s the Villanova Wildcats in 1985 or Tokyo Sexwale in 2001, March personifies the time of year when miracles really can happen.

— Entertainment editor Jon Niccum explores facets of pop culture that have established a unique niche on the Internet in Net Worth. He can be reached at 832-7178.