WASHINGTON — Is your bracket in tatters? Are you denying you ever made any March Madness predictions at all?
Well, you’re hardly alone in your failure: ESPN reports that 657 out of 18,797,085 brackets picked all four of the teams headed to the Final Four in Phoenix. That’s 0.001 percent, and that’s with a relative gimme included: North Carolina, which was a Final Four pick on 43 percent of brackets.
Gonzaga was a relatively popular pick as well — 35 percent of ESPN’s brackets had them going this far.
Oregon was picked by 11 percent, while 0.6 percent had South Carolina.
Only 0.01 percent, or 2,099 predictors, had all three of the teams other than North Carolina advancing.
How about WTOP’s Bracket Challenge? Don’t ask. Digital Sports Editor Noah Frank said no one picked all four Final Four teams.
