When the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournament brackets are announced on Sunday, college basketball fans will dutifully fill them out, hoping for that perfect bracket. Millions of people will submit their picks for the NCAA basketball tournaments to office pools and online contests, and then they will watch along, striving for perfection. If a contestant merely treats each game as a 50-50 coin flip, the chances of predicting a perfect bracket is about 1 in 9.2 quintillion, the Times reported. By using a coin flip, the odds are 1 in 16 million, according to the Times. “I knew I wasn’t going to get a perfect bracket,” Nigl told the Times.

Source: New York Times March 12, 2023 22:02 UTC