Nigl has correctly predicted every March Madness game thus far, which makes him "an astounding for," according to NCAA.
The tournament starts up again on Thursday night, when the Sweet 16 round of games tip off across the country, at which point Nigl will try to extend his streak. The official website of NCAA championships first revealed Nigl's perfect bracket on Tuesday, noting that he is not only the owner of the sole remaining bracket without any wrong picks.
That was an incredible feat. This shattered it," NCAA. There has never been a verified case of someone picking a completely perfect March Madness bracket, according to the NCAA , and the best previous bracket predicted the first 39 games of the game tournament, in Even more amazing than the feat itself might be that Nigl himself had no idea his bracket was perfect until NCAA. The odds of filling out a perfect bracket are one in 9,,,,,, according to one estimation , but some believe the odds can change based off the quality of the field.
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For reference on how straightforward this year was, Yahoo noted that before , only one previous Yahoo bracket had started for in the 18 years it has hosted an online tournament. View the updated interactive bracket Print the bracket March Madness gear. A few more interesting facts:. A 16 seed has never beaten a 1 seed in the history of the tournament. It failed to choose a fourth final winner and national champion. Over the course of the tournament, there are a total of seven rounds.
The total number of games played from the first round to the last is Therefore, to fill out a perfect March Madness bracket, you would need to correctly guess the winners of all 63 games.
At first, that may not sound like such a daunting feat. After all, there is a chance that you could guess the correct results for each match up. Those with above-average familiarity with the strengths and weaknesses of different teams could further skew those odds in their favor. So just how difficult would it be to build a perfect bracket, statistically speaking?
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