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Misery loves company: 0.01 percent of ESPN March Madness brackets picked Final Four

WASHINGTON — Is your bracket in tatters? Are you denying you ever made any March Madness predictions at all?

Well, you’re hardly alone in your failure: that 657 out of 18,797,085 brackets picked all four of the teams headed to the Final Four in Phoenix. That’s 0.001 percent, and that’s with a relative gimme included: North Carolina, which was a Final Four pick on 43 percent of brackets.

as well — 35 percent of ESPN’s brackets had them going this far.

, while 0.6 percent had South Carolina.

Only 0.01 percent, or 2,099 predictors, had all three of the .

How about ? Don’t ask. Digital Sports Editor Noah Frank said no one picked all four Final Four teams.

Rick Massimo

Rick Massimo came to СÂÜÀòÓ°ÊÓ, and to Washington, in 2013 after having lived in Providence, R.I., since he was a child. He's the author of "A Walking Tour of the Georgetown Set" and "I Got a Song: A History of the Newport Folk Festival."

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