8th grader has the only perfect March Madness bracket left
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An eighth-grader holds the only perfect March Madness bracket among 40 million entries.
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An eighth-grader holds the only perfect March Madness bracket among more than 40 million entries submitted across the NCAA men's and women's tournaments. The remarkable feat stands out because predicting every game correctly in a 68-team tournament involves odds of roughly 1 in 9.2 quintillion, making even a single perfect bracket extraordinarily rare. The student's flawless predictions have drawn attention to the absurd improbability of the task and the sheer volume of people attempting it each year. Perfect brackets occasionally surface in the men's tournament alone, but a survivor across both competitions is virtually unprecedented.
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