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How one fan came close to a perfect March Madness bracket

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HIS PLAN WAS MASTERFUL.

On the morning of March 19, 2019, Gregg Nigl and his wife Casandra would load up their two kids in the car and leave home in Columbus, Ohio, for the first part of the 12-hour drive toward the snowboarding slopes of Vermont. March Madness would be the soundtrack for the entire trip.

Nigl (pronounced NYE-gull) planned half of the drive for Saturday, leaving home right as the second round of the 2019 NCAA men's basketball tournament began.