The 2024 NCAA tournament brackets of a world-renowned basketball aficionado were made public. This year, former president Barack Obama revealed on CBS Mornings why he chose to make his bracket public and shared it exclusively with viewers.
According to college basketball news reports, Obama selected the four teams for the men's tournament final: UConn, Kentucky, Baylor, and Purdue. In the end, UConn and Kentucky faced off in the final, and UConn won for the second year in a row.
He had USC, South Carolina, Stanford, and Iowa as the women's final four teams; in the championship game, South Carolina defeated Iowa.
Many were pleased by Obama's basketball acumen when he correctly predicted that North Carolina would win the 2009 NCAA tournament.
A perfect bracket would occur once every 120 billion years. However, two MIT grads tried to construct a computer model that could outperform the odds. Getting an OK bracket is as simple as picking the winning teams, who are often considered favorites. However, picking shocks is essential for winning. Tauhid Zaman informed Duthiers last year that that was the secret ingredient.
Shawn Chao suggests keeping an eye on the first round if you don't have access to such equipment. He says that there are "typically" about "10 upsets or so."