1 in 9,223,372,036,854,775,808.
Those are the odds of picking a perfect NCAA tournament bracket. Every year millions of people give it their best shot. Some rely on luck, while others rely on homegrown methods to choose the victors.
This year’s tournament was not particularly kind to bracket pickers. University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Wichita State, Yale and Middle Tennessee are some of the schools that caused people to ponder the time they spent pouring over their picks. Lower seeded teams won 13 of the first 32 games, which matches the 2001 NCAA tournament as having the most upsets in the first round, according to espn.