Big Ten Tournament Bracket Generator (2024)

FAQs

What are the odds of getting a perfect tournament bracket? ›

Why is it so hard to pick a perfect bracket? The chances of picking a perfect bracket is: 1 in 2 to the 67th power, or 1 in 147,573,952,589,676,412,928, or about 147 quintillion.

That run of 49 correct games will be very hard to top in the future. The odds of a perfect 63-game NCAA bracket can be as high as 1 in 9.2 quintillion — though those are the perfect bracket odds if every game was a 50-50 coin flip.

From there, they are taking the top 15 and holding a tournament that looks almost identical to what we have seen with a 14-team Big Ten, except now there is a third first-round game, which will be the 9 vs. 15 game, with the winner of that advancing to play the 6-seed in the second round.

The amount of different possible outcomes comes out to exactly 9,223,372,036,854,775,808, according to the NCAA.

There has never been a verified perfect bracket, according to the NCAA. The organization has been tracking online submissions across platforms since 2016 and used archival data before that.

Virtually all NCAA tournament brackets disregard the First Four and only pick games starting with the first round. Since there are 64 teams in those brackets, the most basic calculation is the number of possible outcomes for 63 games picked randomly.

The lowest seed to ever win the Big Ten Tournament was Michigan in 2017 when the Wolverines marched through as the No. 8 seed. They beat No. 2 seed Wisconsin 71-56 to take the Big Ten Tournament championship that year.

Michigan State has won the most Big Ten Tournament Championships with six. Below is a list of schools that have won the Big Ten Tournament over the years: Michigan State - 6 (1999, 2000, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2019) Ohio State - 5 (2002*, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2013)

Indiana remains the last school to accomplish this feat. Behind the play of Mike Woodson Indiana won the 1979 NIT championship. The 1979–80 Hoosiers, led by Woodson and Isiah Thomas, won the Big Ten championship and advanced to the 1980 Sweet Sixteen.

NO ONE HAS EVER picked a verified perfect NCAA men's bracket, and it's probably not going to happen in our lifetime, or the lifetime of our kids, or their kids, or their kids.

Are there anymore perfect brackets? ›

There has never been a verified perfect bracket, according to the NCAA.

Our estimate is that around 83 million brackets were filled out last year, an 18% increase from 2022. If that kind of growth continues, 2024 could be the first year that 100 million brackets are submitted across the U.S.!

Assuming equal win probability in all games, this amounts to a simple expression of 1/2⁶³ or 1/9,223,372,036,854,775,808 (9.2 Quintillion). There are 15 series played in the NBA playoffs with 8 different possibilities assuming equal win probability in all the series played.

NO ONE HAS EVER picked a verified perfect NCAA men's bracket, and it's probably not going to happen in our lifetime, or the lifetime of our kids, or their kids, or their kids.

2018 — Senior guard Jairus Lyles scores 28 points and the University of Maryland-Baltimore County pulls off the most shocking upset in NCAA Tournament history, defeating Virginia 75-54 to become the first No. 16 seed to beat a No. 1 seed in men's basketball. Virginia enters the NCAA Tournament as the No.