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March Madness: The perfect bracket is over— why it’s a nearly impossible feat

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A total of 25 million brackets were created on a popular site this year which is still “less than one billionth of a percent” of the total possible bracket combinations.

According to the NCAA , no one has ever been able to create a bracket with every single game being predicted correctly.

In theory, if the seed ranks are taken away and all 64 teams are evenly matched, making a March Madness bracket could be as simple as flipping a coin 63 times.

Harris said he normally does pick teams that are favored to win, but “sprinkles in” a few of his upsets. “Like everyone else, I start the tournament with the same hopes that this will be the year I will get everything right,” he said. “Not surprisingly, it hasn’t hit for me yet.”.

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