Davidson College student, Jane Gribble, was our March Mathness winner this year. Below she explains how she filled in her bracket.
I love basketball – Davidson College basketball. As a Davidson College cheerleader I have an enormous amount of school pride, especially when it comes to our basketball team. However, outside of Davidson College I know little to nothing about college basketball. I knew that UNC Chapel Hill was having a tough season because this is my sister’s alma mater. Also, I knew that New Mexico, Gonzaga, Duke, and Montana were all likely teams for the NCAA tournament because we had ...
March Mathness is over, so now it’s time to ask the key question: How did we do?
On March 15 many of us scrambled to complete our brackets and 64 of us placed them in the PUP March Mathness group of the ESPN Tourney Challenge. Almost everyone was in the top 50th percentile and 10 of our group did better than 90% of the 6.5 million people who entered a bracket. What we had in common was that we used a particular math algorithm or some combination to fill out our brackets. Quite a few of us also tossed in a ...
On March 24 we posted some bold predictions on who would win the NCAA basketball championship game. We now have a winner and send our congratulations to Kelly Davis.
Vickie Kearn: My bold pick was Duke based on a little math, past performance, and the luck factor. The one thing missing from my equation was the upset factor and I will be sure to add that next year.
The winner of the ESPN bracket challenge is Joe Pearlman who filled out his bracket in 10 minutes and based his picks on a hunch. Out of 5.9 million entries, he is only one ...
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