An eighth grader from Pittsburgh named Otto Schellhammer has emerged as the only person left with a perfect women’s NCAA bracket in ESPN’s competition out of millions who entered brackets for both the men’s and women’s tournaments. The 14-year-old boasts a 48-0 record through the first weekend of the women’s tournament and aims to extend it to 56-0 during the Sweet 16 on Friday and Saturday. The current record for ESPN’s competition stands at 57-0, with the odds of achieving a perfect bracket estimated by most mathematicians to be around 1 in 28 billion.
[Context: Otto Schellhammer, an eighth grader from Pittsburgh, has the only perfect women’s NCAA bracket among millions of entries in ESPN’s competition.]
[Fact Check: The odds of a perfect bracket are indeed very slim, estimated by most mathematicians to be around 1 in 28 billion.]
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