Otto Schellhammer, a 14-year-old eighth-grader from Plum, Pennsylvania, has created the only perfect bracket out of 41 million entries in the NCAA women’s basketball tournament, despite having no basketball knowledge.Schellhammer said he doesn’t know anything about basketball, yet he correctly predicted the first 48 women’s tournament games on ESPN’s platform, including the upset of Virginia over Iowa.15 wins away Schellhammer is now 15 wins away from maintaining his perfect streak. He needs to correctly predict each of the Sweet 16 games on Thursday and Saturday, followed by the first two games in the Elite Eight starting Sunday, leading up to the Final Four. He has Texas winning the championship on April 5.”So, I don’t watch any basketball. This was kind of just like a random thing. My logic was I tried to take the higher seeds. And from there, I literally just picked who I thought was going to win,” Schellhammer said.Most people have heard that picking a perfect bracket is harder than winning the lottery.Wild bracket math Assuming every game is a 50-50 proposition, mathematicians calculate the odds at 1 in 9.2 quintillion, with 17 zeroes, or about 46 million times the number of stars in our galaxy.It would also take 292 billion years to count to 9.2 quintillion if you go one number per second. Obviously, innate basketball knowledge doesn’t play in.

PLUM, Pa. —

Otto Schellhammer, a 14-year-old eighth-grader from Plum, Pennsylvania, has created the only perfect bracket out of 41 million entries in the NCAA women’s basketball tournament, despite having no basketball knowledge.

Schellhammer said he doesn’t know anything about basketball, yet he correctly predicted the first 48 women’s tournament games on ESPN’s platform, including the upset of Virginia over Iowa.

15 wins away

Schellhammer is now 15 wins away from maintaining his perfect streak. He needs to correctly predict each of the Sweet 16 games on Thursday and Saturday, followed by the first two games in the Elite Eight starting Sunday, leading up to the Final Four. He has Texas winning the championship on April 5.

“So, I don’t watch any basketball. This was kind of just like a random thing. My logic was I tried to take the higher seeds. And from there, I literally just picked who I thought was going to win,” Schellhammer said.

Most people have heard that picking a perfect bracket is harder than winning the lottery.

Wild bracket math

Assuming every game is a 50-50 proposition, mathematicians calculate the odds at 1 in 9.2 quintillion, with 17 zeroes, or about 46 million times the number of stars in our galaxy.

It would also take 292 billion years to count to 9.2 quintillion if you go one number per second. Obviously, innate basketball knowledge doesn’t play in.