2009 NCAA LoT Bracket Challenge

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Interesting tidbit...

March Madness bracket odds are over 9-quintillion-to-1

The odds of you picking a perfect March Madness bracket are not just horrible, they're almost impossibly bad. You have a substantially better shot at winning the Powerball than you do at picking a perfect bracket.

There are a total of 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 possible bracket outcomes, making the odds of a perfect bracket over 9.2-quintillion-to-1. In fact, the odds are so bad that, according to RJ Bell at Pregame.com, if every individual alive in the world completed a bracket, the odds are a billion-to-one against any of them being perfect.

That seems a bit high to me...

Let's see there are 32 First round games, so the possible combinations in the first round is only 2 ^ number of games or 2^ 32nd

2^32= 4,294,967,296

Now for the second round

For each one of the 4,294,967,296 possible first round outcomes there are an addational 2^16 possible second round outcomes..... Errr, never mind....