On March 11, the bracket for the 2012 NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball tournament was announced on CBS. This year over 10 million college basketball fans filled out online brackets on websites such as cbssports.com and espn.com.
In 2009, 58 million Americans filled out brackets.
According to docsports.com, the odds of a getting a perfect bracket are one in 9,223,372,036,854,775,808. In other words, not even a thousandth of a percent. And that’s not even including the play in games.
According to bookofodds.com, you have a better chance of being killed by a waterspout in a year than you do having a perfect bracket (1 in 1,988,000,000).
Picking against the first seeds appears idiotic, as they are undefeated against the 16th seeds in tournament history. And until this season’s tournament, two second seeds have never lost to a 15th seed in the same tournament.
Only once, in the tournament’s history, have all of the first seeds advanced to the Final Four (2008).
On espn.com, no bracket entries were 100 percent accurate for this year’s tournament. However, 2 out of the 5.9 million brackets on espn.com had all of the correct teams playing in the Final Four. The question now is, who will be next year’s bracket buster?
