Eighth Grader from Pittsburgh Stuns Nation with Flawless Women’s NCAA Bracket—Is She the Ultimate March Madness Prodigy?
He’s one in 41.2 million.
“I think it’s absolutely hilarious,” said Amy Schellhammer, who actually did play high school ball. “It’s just so fun to see. It’s exciting. I’m excited he’s into women’s basketball now. He’s been watching and it’s making him more excited about it.”
Most people have heard that picking a perfect bracket is harder than winning the lottery, but exactly how hard is it? The late DePaul mathematics professor Jeffrey Bergen calculated the odds at 1 in 9.2 quintillion, assuming every game is a 50-50 proposition, or about 46 million times the number of stars in our galaxy.


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