Every year millions of brackets are created, and by this
point of the NCAA basketball tournament, everyone one of them is “busted”.
There has never been a perfect bracket created, and probably there will never
be one. The odds are 1 in
9.2 quintillion. That’s a lot of
zeroes, there’s a reason why they call it March Madness.
This year Warren Buffet dropped the Billion Dollar Challenge
on us. 1 perfect bracket=1 billion dollars. Everyone was quickly trying to
decide which Cinderella team would pull the upsets, which number one seed would
go down first, and which teams would end up in the Final Four. All with the
longshot of winning that billion dollars. Some spent hours putting a bracket
together, others made them based off mascots, and some through darts
(literally). And every one of the 15 million brackets entered didn’t make it
out of the first round of games. Warren Buffet was smiling somewhere, patting
his wallet.
It started with Dayton beating Ohio St., an 11 seed over a 6
seed with Final Four hopes, some picked the upset, most didn’t. But the
floodgates were opened and the confident “experts” were soon sending their
brackets to the ever-growing fire of burning brackets (Some people actually
burn their brackets out of disgust). Duke? Lost to 14 seeded Mercer. 3 of the 4
#5 seeds? Lost. Undefeated Wichita State? Out in Round 2. Madness. Pure Madness. And yet we love it.
Millions of brackets were destroyed, but ratings were
through the roof, and rightfully so! The games were incredible, even to the passerby
fan. College classrooms had laptops open, but games being watched online. Lunch
breaks at work turned into afternoon long breaks. Watching the madness unfold
so beautifully before our eyes. And now, we have the Final Four teams. Playing
in Jerry World this upcoming weekend. #1 Florida, the top team in the
tournament. #2 seed Wisconsin entering the Final Four for the first time under
legendary coach Bo Ryan who for so long couldn’t make it to the 3rd
and final weekend of games. #7 seed UConn who’s hot at the right time. And
finally #8 Kentucky who finally learned what playing as a team looked like.
Nobody is chasing a billion dollars anymore, so now we can
forget the brackets and enjoy the final weekend of NCAA basketball. And then we
can take a break for a few months before the season starts back up. And the
quest for a perfect bracket starts all over. Just remember, there’s always next
year!
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