Joe Lunardi

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Joseph Lunardi, is a college basketball analyst for ESPN. Born and currently resides in Havertown, PA. Haverford High School and Saint Joseph's University alumni. He is best known for creating Bracketology, and is well known as the resident bracketologist for ESPN. Since 1998, he has picked correctly 64 of 65 teams every year. In addition to his duties at ESPN, he is the Assistant Vice President of University Communications at Saint Joseph's University and does play-by-play for men's basketball for the St. Joseph's Hawks. [1]

Lunardi's first bracket for ESPN received 250,000 hits in the first 90 minutes posted. His brackets sometimes receive millions of hits over the course of a season. [2] Since then, he has been a fixture on ESPN's Bracketology program and on SportsCenter, especially during the months of February and March in the run to the NCAA Tournament.

Lunardi has been accused of receiving inside information regarding brackets, particularly because of his sudden inclusion of George Mason into his bracket right before the 2006 brackets were released, and a similar incident involving Arkansas in 2007.^{[citation needed]}