NCAA March Madness bracket busted? The odds were really, really long

It's nearly impossible to fill out a perfect NCAA March Madness bracket. Saint Peter's beat the odds by knocking off the National Champion Kentucky. According to SB Nation, 95.6% of all ESPN brackets had Kentucky advancing to the second round of the tournament.

The longest streak of March Madness predictions was 49 games in 2019. The longest one was broken on the 50th game when Purdue beat Tennessee. To pick a perfect bracket, one needs to predict 63 games.

The odds of getting a perfect NCAA March Madness bracket are 1 in 9.2 quintillion. If you know a little about basketball, the odds increase to 1.3 billion.

Georgia Tech professor Sokol has created a ranking method called LRMC. It was inspired by a famous basketball game in 2002. The year after Georgia Tech missed the NCAA tournament Sokols released a bracket showing the school making it to the Final Four. They have tracked nearly 80 different methods for ranking teams. They were asked by theNCAA to help provide rankings for the selection committee. Sokos doesn't make money from his predictions. He feels he shouldn't be in any brackets even if there is no money involved. His predictions helped others make some money. "It was kind of tough to be at GeorgiaTech and say, we have a mathematical system that we don't influence at all. But, hey, it happens to say Georgia Technical is going to get to Final 4.

This year's NCAA March Madness bracket was busted. Sokol and his colleagues predicted that Gonzaga would win the whole thing. He says sports are unpredictable and it's not predictable. The selection committee couldn't predict three of the Final Four teams. The only one-seed left in the tournament was Kansas. There is no perfect bracket.