Eighth Grader from Pittsburgh Stuns Nation with Flawless Women’s NCAA Bracket—Is She the Ultimate March Madness Prodigy?
“I play with my friends,” he added, “but I don’t really watch it.”
Oh, he’ll be watching now. Schellhammer has correctly picked the first 48 women’s games in ESPN’s Tournament Challenge, leaving him just 15 away from perfection. He has Texas cutting down the nets on April 5 in Phoenix.
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While it’s impossible to know whether there are any other perfect brackets in millions of smaller pools all across the country, the NCAA has tracked seven of the largest contests for years, said Mike Benzie, the senior director of content for NCAA Digital. This year they totaled about 36 million men’s entries and 5.2 on the women’s side, which means Schellhammer’s is better than one-in-a-million.


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