The NCAA men’s basketball tournament, also known as “March Madness,” involves predicting 63 games, but no person has ever correctly predicted all games in a documented bracket. Each year, an estimated 60 to 100 million brackets are filled out, but despite this, the NCAA, ESPN, and Yahoo! Sports confirm no one has ever picked a perfect bracket. The odds of achieving this by coinflip are one in 9.2 quintillion according to mathematicians. Predicting based on basketball knowledge improves these chances, but they still remain incredibly low, with estimates ranging from 1 in 120 billion to 1 in 1.5 billion. The closest record of perfection is a 2019 bracket that accurately predicted the first 49 games.
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