As the NCAA men's basketball season is ending, it also means that it is the beginning of the most popular collegiate tournament: “March Madness”.

March Madness is a college basketball tournament containing a bracket of the 68 best teams competing for the same goal of winning a national championship. Many sports fans watch this tournament because of the shocking upsets that occur in the tournament by lower-seeded teams. Every year there is always one school that makes a deep run in the tournament which sports fans like to call a “Cinderella run,” such as the 2008 Davidson team that was led by NBA superstar Stephen Curry. Curry had a historical performance throughout this tournament.

The tradition that makes March Madness so fun to watch for fans is the attempt at a perfect bracket: where one predicts all 67 games correctly. Predicting a perfect bracket has never been done before. For those who wonder why it is nearly impossible to predict a perfect bracket, the odds of someone guessing every game correctly is one in 9.2 quintillion.

“I believe Marquettes gonna win because of two words…Tyler Kolek, maybe a defensive team like Houston or an older team like Kansas can make it happen but I got Marquette winning it all.” -Luke Hecht (’24)

“Teams have to be able to defend because they’re gonna play teams that they don’t normally see in the regular season and they have to prepare for offenses that aren’t in their conference, so teams that can adjust to that and play defense against those teams are the ones that are going to be successful” -Lance Radford

“I think if Princeton wins the Ivy League, they will make a deep run into the playoffs” -Caden McCallum (’24)

“I think Kentucky are gonna win, they got the pieces to make it happen. They have two future lottery picks that are freshmen coming off the bench. They are going to win the title or get bounced out the first round, no in between.” -Xavier Sheldon (’25)

“I think Arizona is gonna win because the final four and the championship games are in Arizona.” -Kalea Oshidari (’26)

“I have been a Kansas fan through and through and through, Bill Self is an amazing coach. They have an amazing team. They fought real hard last year and brought a lot of kids back, and I think they’re going to be a force to be reckoned with.” -Bryn Boyd

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