Matthew's Journal

I case anyone was curious, there are 2⁶⁴ (two to the sixty fourth power) ways to fill out an NCAA basket including the play-in game.

One play-in game, 32 first round games, 16 second round games, 8 sweet sixteen games, 4 elite eight game, 2 final four games, and the final gives you:

2¹ x 2³² x 2¹⁶ x 2⁸ x 2⁴ x 2² x 2¹ = 2⁶⁴
(18,446,744,073,709,551,616)

You have better odds of winning the lottery several times than you do filling out a NCAA tournament bracket randomly and correctly picking the winner of all the games.