MADNESS!

MADNESS! 

It’s that exciting time of year where gambling picks up, work productivity slows down and your brackets get filled out.  That’s right, it’s time for MARCH MADNESS!  68 college teams compete for one championship!

You don’t have to be a fan to get caught up in all the “Hoop-Laa” and excitement but you do have to be one lucky bastard to pick the winner of all 67 games that will be played the next few weeks.  Besides the four “play-in” games, to be played tomorrow and Wednesday, the official first round of 64 teams starts on Thursday.  So I hope you have been brushing up on teams like Creighton, Belmont, Harvard and Norfolk St. because these are just a handful of the teams competing for all the glory this March!

I just filled out my bracket…and no, I don’t have LIU Brooklyn winning it all!  They face Michigan State in the first round.  I will tell you that the odds of picking the winner of every game including the National Championship game are 1 in 18,446,744,073,709,551,616.  That would be a perfect bracket.  You have a far greater chance of winning the state lottery than picking all these games.  This figure was found by taking 64 teams (not counting the play-in games) and using the math equation 2 to the 64^th power. 

Of course I should note that in the history of the NCAA tournament NO #16 team has ever beat a #1 seed and the lowest seed to ever make the Final Four was ranked #11.  If you really want your brain to explode please visit this website http://mkaz.com/sports/the-odds-of-a-perfect-bracket.html.

It will provide more mind boggling odds information.

So now that you know, you are not going to pick the perfect bracket, grab one and fill it out.  Have some fun and see how close you are to picking the winner of all these games!