9,223,372,036,854,780,000, the number of possible combinations in the 63-game NCAA college basketball tournament. Experts say a person is more likely to be struck by lightning twice in the same sunny day than to win some state lotteries, so I really can’t imagine what kind of hyperbole people would come up with to complete a perfect pool. with more than nine hexallions of possible combos.
Perhaps, completing a perfect parenthesis; less likely Duke won’t choke in the first two rounds and advance to the second week of play. It’s okay, Coach K, someday you’re going to get your 70th career win.
Completing a perfect parenthesis; less likely than Memphis to make their free throws at the end of a close game.
Or my personal favorite: completing a perfect parenthesis; Less odds than underdogs with a 4-0 record at a tournament site in the first round, including 2 #12 seeds and 2 #13 seeds.
This year, in an effort to get more people to fill in the brackets on their site, Yahoo! He offered five million dollars for perfect support and, of course, he could still feel comfortable that his money would be safe in the bank. Face it, I could offer my firstborn and the right to own a personal flying carpet, and a perfect group of 63 games would still never come to be.
But this weekend, all of you lazy workers looking for a great break may have had one. yahoo! is offering a million dollars for a perfect second chance. Starting with sweet sixteen and just fifteen games remaining in the tournament, there are now a much more manageable 32,768 possible combinations in this pool. You know what it means? For the next two days, you must fill in the brackets whenever you are available; fill them out at breakfast, at work, at lunch, during class, when your wife is trying to have a conversation with you, and before you go to sleep. Choose the obvious games and choose the surprises; be sure to mix and match crazy combinations. And because I opened your eyes to these great new odds, feel obligated to give me a fraction of your newfound fortune when you pick that coveted perfect second chance pool.