The first weekend of the tournament was insane. The favorite was bounced in the second round. Three teams with double digit seed are still alive. In only eight of the sixteen pods did the team with the highest seed advance to the Sweet 16.
It was impossible to pick, right?
The 4.8 million people that filled out a bracket on ESPN.com agree. None of them made it past Friday's Texas A&M-Utah State game with a perfect bracket.
One person did, however.
Alex Hermann, a 17 year old autistic kid from the Chicago area, beat the 1-in-3.4 billion odds and got all 48 of the first round games correct. I'm sure those odds go up if you consider that you would have to pick Northern Iowa over Kansas, Ohio over Georgetown, and Washington, St. Mary's, and Cornell into the Sweet 16.
A video of Alex talking about his picks can be found here. If you're wondering, he picked Purdue to win it all.
And, you know, I really hope its true.
The problem is that Alex is in a bracket group that allows the group manager to go back and change picks after the game has started.
So was this dumb luck, does it involve a little bit of cheating, or is this kid really that smart about basketball?
I'm hoping the kid is just that good.
Jason McElwain, the gauntlet has been thrown .
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
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I want this to be true but something is fishy about it.
I mean, i have in my hands right now a perfect bracket that I filled out, but I may or may not have done it after the first weekend was over. I have ADHD, where's my story?
Seriously, I want the validity of this bracket proven, then come back to me with a tearjerking story if we have proven that he picked both Northern Iowa and Ohio to spring upsets.
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