March Madness is a college basketball event that sees teams going head to head in order to get to the top spot. There are several different games and with that, comes all of the possible outcomes. People have tried several times to correctly predict the winner of every game, but no one has even come close to getting every prediction correct.

There are 67 games in the whole bracket, and just one upset or unexpected win or loss, can ruin someone’s entire bracket. The closest someone has ever come to getting every single guess right, is still not even close to a perfect bracket. The person who got the closest was Gregg Nigl.

Nigl has a wife, named Casandra Nigl, and two kids, Kaiden and Claire. According to ESPN, Nigl went on a trip in March of 2019, and he and his family visited a Pennsylvania bar to watch a Michigan Wolverines game. Nigl’s strategy for his brackets was heavily leaning on his favorite team in the Wolverines. The bracket below shows his following predictions.

Nigl guessed 49 out of 67 games correctly, which is about 73.13% correct guesses. Then again, 18 incorrect guesses is still a long way to getting a perfect bracket. For most people, getting over half of their predictions right is incredible. Nigl’s predictions probably won’t be beaten for a long time.

The odds of getting all of the predictions right is almost impossible. The odds of getting every prediction correct is about 1 in 9.2 quintillion, according to the NCAA. Humans are more likely to be struck by lightning ten times than getting every guess correct. 

Considering the odds, a perfect March Madness bracket is most likely never going to happen. People might get closer than Gregg Nigl’s impressive 49 guesses right, but are unlikely to get all of their guesses right.