Who leaked the March Madness bracket?

One of the biggest unsolved mysteries of the universe is who leaked his year’s March Madness bracket before it was announced. 

Selection Sunday is one of the best days on the College Basketball calendar. Fans eagerly await what the March Madness bracket will look like as crunching numbers — or flipping a coin — to fill out who we think will win is one of the best parts of being a sports fan. Even people who aren’t sports fans or figures get into the madness of March, but already we have a controversy that you may or may not care about.

No, it’s not about a team like Monmouth getting snubbed. Instead it’s about who leaked the official March Madness bracket before it was revealed on CBS.

The real thing to take away from all of this is why do we at all care? The only people truly hurt by this is CBS, who paid for and had to remain married to their two-hour show revealing the bracket. That’s why this is a big media deal, but for fans who didn’t invest hundreds of thousands of dollars into a television special, the mystery is a little more light hearted.

There are a handful of theories about who leaked the bracket — from some rando who helped put it together to an intern who had eyes on it too early to even someone high profile like Seth Davis.

We will eventually know who leaked the bracket, but that’s almost a MaGuffin at this point. A MacGuffin was something that Alfred Hitchcock used in his movies as a piece of the story that was there simply to move the plot forward but wasn’t what the overall story was about. That’s the bracket leak, in this instance. We are all intrigued that it happened, but at the end of the day we’re not going to care once we wake up on Friday morning and our brackets are already busted.