reclegend22;1392744 wrote:The first thing I do in my bracket every year is pick my favorite team to win. That's why I only have won one bracket contest in my life. 2010. I've been very close in other years (in 2005 all I needed was Arizona to close the deal with Illinois and I had $500 in my pocket ... I paced around the house after that game until morning. No exaggeration. I still hate Deron Williams and Luther ****--- Head), but usually Duke's string of Sweet 16 exits did a number on my productivity for years.

Even in the rare cases that I fill out a second bracket, I end up penciling Duke to the championship. It's a compulsion.

the odds of attaining a perfect bracket are 1 in 35,360,000,000. (Or, according to Book Of Odds, "almost 18 times worse than your odds of being killed by a waterspout in a year [1 in 1,988,000,000].")