Jon Ottolini
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Jon Ottolini was the first person in history to get the Men's NCAA Basketball tournament bracket entirely correct. He did this in the year 1998. This accomplishment is a combination of luck, skill, research, and foresight. Ottolini has not accomplished this feat for a second time as the chance of an entirely correct bracket is highly unlikely. The chances of a perfect bracket are roughly 1 in 150 million. The likelyhood of this becomes more unlikely as underdogs perform better against the higher seeds. In order to answer the many questions he received after his perfect bracket, Ottolini opened a bracketology service. The service is not an exact science as there are 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 different combinations that can occur.
Sources: http://bracketville.tripod.com/ http://www.stat.yale.edu/~jay/News/WSJbb.pdf http://mkaz.com/archives/156/the-odds-of-a-perfect-bracket http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_NCAA_Men's_Division_I_Basketball_Tournament http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/56223.html
