March Madness is one of the largest sports betting events in the U.S, often exceeding the Super Bowl in total bets with this year’s tournament projected 4 billion in legal bets and 100 million brackets being created. Since the first ever brackets created in the 1977 Tournament, There hasn’t been a perfect bracket ever in history with the odds of having a perfect bracket being 1 in 922,337,203,685,477,580.
Duke the bracket killer
For back to back years, Duke was the most popular team to win the championship, gathering 25.15 percent of votes listed on ESPN.com but a loss to UCONN in the Elite 8 proved that anything can happen in March. Woodbridge Softball Head Coach, Mr. Jago believed in Duke’s chances, though his prediction did not come true.
“Duke is in the hardest region…If they make it out, which I believe they will, they deserve to win it all,” said Jago.
Arizona & Michigan fan favorites?
Arizona and Michigan combined for 30.9 percent of votes for this year’s tournament listed on ESPN.com, both teams being the respected No. 1 seeds. Woodbridge high school students Darius Ambrose and Sean Russo believes Arizona will win it all and be named the NCAA Champions, but Other students, Andrew Crespo and Dylan Mastrola think Michigan will beat them out in the finales.
“They (Arizona) will win because of their offensive rebounding and Jaden Bradley ”stated Ambrose and Russo.
“Eliot Kadoe is the savior of Michigan and will get the job done” says Crespo and Mastrola
Florida back to back ruined?
With Florida winning last year’s tournament, they are only 4th in voting. Many fans of the Gators like Woodbridge High School Student Micheal Gurovich believed after having an under performing regular season that Xiavan Lee will break out and win it all. Unfortunately, Florida had a tough lost against Iowa taking them out of the tournament in the Second Round.
Woodbridge’s overall pick: Arizona
After gathering info from over 50 Woodbridge students and staff, the majority of them say Arizona will win it all with Michigan right behind them in votes.
