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Misery loves company: 0.01 percent of ESPN March Madness brackets picked Final Four

WASHINGTON — Is your bracket in tatters? Are you denying you ever made any March Madness predictions at all?

Well, you’re hardly alone in your failure: ESPN reports that 657 out of 18,797,085 brackets picked all four of the teams headed to the Final Four in Phoenix. That’s 0.001 percent, and that’s with a relative gimme included: North Carolina, which was a Final Four pick on 43 percent of brackets.

Gonzaga was a relatively popular pick as well — 35 percent of ESPN’s brackets had them going this far.

Oregon was picked by 11 percent, while 0.6 percent had South Carolina.

Only 0.01 percent, or 2,099 predictors, had all three of the teams other than North Carolina advancing.

How about WTOP’s Bracket Challenge? Don’t ask. Digital Sports Editor Noah Frank said no one picked all four Final Four teams.

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WASHINGTON -- Past met present for Georgetown University when the school introduced Hoyas great Patrick Ewing as its head men's basketball coach, with an eye toward the future.  It happened on Wednesday in front of a room packed with media, boosters, fans, students, alumni and a pep band that did not know "Vehicle" by the Ides of March. But Ewing's name alone was music enough to everyone's ears at the John Thompson Jr. Athletic Center in D.C. Ewing even replicated his famous scene from when he committed to play at the Big East school in 1981, holding a Georgetown pennant above his head.
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