A factory worker in West Virginia fell one game short of winning $1 million in Berkshire Hathaway's NCAA tournament bracket contest.
The company was offering $1 million per year for life to any employee who could pick the first two rounds correctly and a lump sum of $1 million to anyone who accurately predicted the first round.
Berkshire chairman Warren Buffett told ESPN on Tuesday that the winner, who received $100,000 for going the furthest among the 96,108 brackets entered, missed one game out of the first 32. After choosing the first 29 games correctly, he picked Marquette to beat South Carolina.