Espn March Maddness (2024)

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How many people are in the ESPN bracket Challenge? ›

Ashtyn Gold correctly picked the Final Four matchups in ESPN's Tournament Challenge contest. In addition, of the 22.6 million people who entered the contest, her bracket is ranked 109 and in the 99th percentile of all brackets. The Abbott Creek Elementary student kept her bracket strategy simple.

2024. The final perfect men's bracket almost made it through the first round, but No. 8 Utah State's win against No. 9 TCU busted the last standing bracket on the 31st game of the tournament.

This year's tracking on the women's side involved more than four million brackets.

The Final Four will simulcast across TBS and TNT. You can also watch the final three games of the NCAA Tournament on the March Madness Live app and on Max's B/R Sports Add-On.

Compete against friends, ESPN personalities and celebrities to see who finishes with the best bracket and hoops-bragging glory. It's FREE to play with $125,000 in prizes available to win, plus an additional $50,000 for Men's Second Chance! Fill out 25 brackets to be eligible to win special prizes!

This year, more than 22 million NCAA Men's Tournament brackets were made on ESPN.

Virtually all bracket pools disregard these games and only have players pick from the first round, when 64 teams remain. Therefore, there are 63 games in a normal NCAA tournament bracket. As such, the number of possible outcomes for a bracket is 2^63, or 9,223,372,036,854,775,808. That's 9.2 quintillion.

Various approaches have been taken to estimate the chance of predicting a perfect bracket. There are 2⁶³ or 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 unique combinations of winners in a 64-team bracket, meaning that without considering seed number, the odds of picking a perfect bracket are about 9.22 quintillion to 1.

UConn Huskies men's basketball

NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament / Latest Winner

UConn also was the favorite in the ESPN Tournament Challenge at 24.7%, followed by Houston at 13.6% and Purdue at 10.1%. Sheldon Jacobson, who runs the BracketOdds website, said most people don't take the proper approach to filling out their brackets, choosing games from the first round to the championship game.

Who won the March Madness 2024 women's bracket? ›

South Carolina beats Iowa to complete unbeaten season, win 2024 women's NCAA title.

U.S. Bettors spent $2.72 billion on this year's tournament (men's & women's) That's 55% more money than was wagered on the 2024 Super Bowl ($1.5 billion). This was a big decrease from 2023 ($15.5 billion) but closer to 2022 ($3.1 billion). Represents 2.2% of all money legally wagered in the U.S. in 2023.

UConn Huskies men's basketball

NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament / Latest Winner

National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), organization in the United States that administers intercollegiate athletics. It was formed in 1906 as the Intercollegiate Athletic Association to draw up competition and eligibility rules for football and other intercollegiate sports.

The 2024 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament tipped off with Selection Sunday on March 17, followed by the First Four games on March 19 at UD Arena in Dayton, Ohio. Below are the dates and locations for March Madness, which ended with the championship game at State Farm Stadium in Phoenix, AZ on April 8.

Whether you enter via the Website, ESPN App, Fantasy App and/or via the Tournament Challenge App, there is a limit of twenty-five (25) total entries per person for this Promotion.

Out of 3.25 million entries in the ESPN Tournament Challenge, just one perfect women's NCAA Tournament bracket remains after No. 3 seed Oregon State defeated No. 2 Notre Dame 70-65 to open Friday's play in the Sweet 16.

Various approaches have been taken to estimate the chance of predicting a perfect bracket. There are 2⁶³ or 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 unique combinations of winners in a 64-team bracket, meaning that without considering seed number, the odds of picking a perfect bracket are about 9.22 quintillion to 1.

Participants may create up to six (6) brackets total for the Promotion; up to three (3) for the Men's Challenge and up to three (3) for the Women's Challenge.